Well, not really. It just happened that I had enough leftover fabric from Deadline Project II to make one.  The quilt top is complete, the binding made, the larger pieces of left over fabric is put away and the pattern is off to be tested. Now I just need to put away the smaller scraps and get it quilted and bound.

I think there is a young man who is going to get a quilt for Christmas. His sister spent the weekend piecing this top. Now the question is it big enough and how/who will quilt it.

It really wasn’t a day’s worth of piecing — I worked on another project, cooked dinner, watched DWTS & Castle and periodically goofed off. But you see here 62 blocks with one more piece attached.

I finished the 63rd block (or was it the first) to make sure I had everything cut right.

The block measures 8 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ unfinished – I forgot to add that to the cheat sheet I did for this quilt.  The cheat sheet can be found HERE.

It doesn’t look like much, but I’m making headway on my red, white & blue quilt. I have about half of the red squares assembled, then it will be on to the corner squares.

Eventually, I’ll put together a pattern with full directions, but in the meantime, I’ve put together a cheat sheet which can be viewed HERE.

Hop over to Patchwork Times to see what others have been up to this past week.

Quilts in “active” progress. The leader/ender project of black and neutral 2-patches for Bricks and Stepping Stones, Deadline Project 2 and “August Quilt C”.  I really need a better name for it.  It was the 3rd quilt I designed in August.

In between sets of stitching for the deadline project (currently called “September Quilt A”) I added side triangles to a stack of 10 squares.  Every once in a while I would stitch a 2-patch. I now have 50 of them in my knitting bucket.

I have a deadline I need to meet. So what do I do? Spend the evening cutting the fabric for this quilt I drew in EQ back in August.

It wasn’t all goofing off – I did work on the deadline project, but obviously didn’t get as much done as I perhaps should have.  I’ll see about making it up tonight.

This is obviously not my design wall – it’s all I can show of what I’ve been working on this past weekend. 45 2-inch 2-patches all made as leader/enders. I’ll need 288 2-patches, so perhaps this project will last me a bit.

See what others are up to over at Patchwork Times.

Nothing in and nothing out this week. Perhaps I’ll be able to finish Deadline Project 2 in time for next week’s report.

Fabric Added Since Last Report: 0 yards
Fabric Added To Date: 164.037
Fabric Used Since Last report: 0 yards
Fabric Used To Date: -50.146

See how others are doing with their stash over at Patchwork Times.

After pondering a bit I’ve settled on my next leader/ender project – Bricks and Stepping Stones. I don’t have enough 2″ squares cut, but there are enough to keep me going for a while. When all of the 4-patches are made I’ll worry about the 3 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ bricks.

Last weekend I finished my Leader/Ender spools quilt top. That was my goal for the Bonnie Challenge issued by Jo over at Jo’s Country.  But there are two more weeks in the challenge. So I need to figure out what to work on.

My Blue Ridge Beauty needs borders – but I don’t have anything appropriate for borders in my stash and I need to work from stash for a bit.

Orca Bay, the mystery from what – 2 years ago – is still in a million pieces. I’ve got to finish the string piecing before I can assemble the blocks. This would be good to work on — if I wasn’t in the middle of a project with a deadline. I really need something I can use for leader/enders.  String piecing doesn’t seem conducive to that.

So, what other Bonnie quilt tops do I have in progress.  Oh — Scrappy Trips and Rectangle Wrangler. But those are out too.

Scrappy Trips is my treadle project –

and Rectangle Wrangle I haven’t settled on the constant fabric let alone cut enough strips – although I think I have more than these:

So, what’s a quilter to do but flip through all her Bonnie books and look through Bonnie’s Free Patterns to find something that will work with my pre-cut pieces or can be quickly cut so I can have a leader/ender project.

I have said in the past “Anymore it drives me crazy not to have a L&E stack by my sewing machine!”

I’m going to give myself maybe two more hours to figure this out and get some fabric lined up for my L&E project then it will be back to the deadline quilt.

In the meantime, check out how overs are doing with their Bonnie Challenge.