Leftovers

 Welcome to Treadlestitches!  Are you still working on the Thanksgiving leftovers?  We definitely are.  I have also been working on some quilt leftovers.

These pieces were left over from making Bonnie Hunter's Celtic Solstice pattern, her mystery quilt for 2013.  (Yes, seven years ago.)  I found them when I was cleaning out my basement stash, and was trying to decide what to do with them.

There's a reason they were leftovers.  Most of them are Not Made Well.  There was nothing wrong with Bonnie's instructions, my sloppy sewing and cutting are solely to blame.  In a vain attempt to match points, I distorted their shapes.  Quite a few of them have one half of the little square longer than the other half.  I remember being in despair about these sections, before I just decided to replace them with an unpieced square and get on with life.

Faced with this bag of failure, I was ready to toss it out, but decided to take one more look.  Some of the pieces were actually okay.  I could arrange them to make a star.

Or I could make this block.  And I could put in a blue square for the center.  Green and yellow are okay (Go Packers!) but I liked it better with another color added in.

Arranging it this way, I can have my stars, too.

The pieced sashing between the two blocks gives this effect.  Kind of like hidden stars.

Piecing the sashing between the rows makes it look like this.  I used two of the exact same units as the sashing between the blocks, with another blue square between the units.  (In this photo, count up 4 squares (not blocks) from the bottom to find the sashing row.)

I kept going until I finished the top for this table runner.  I have a long dining room table, with leaves that fold down, so this size fits well.  When I get it quilted, I can use it during non-holiday times of the year.  The best of those old leftovers have found a new home, and I can with a good conscience get rid of the rest.

Here's a casual shot of our Thanksgiving this year.  We were a small crew in person, larger if you count in family on Zoom.  Baby Buddy couldn't get the idea of looking at the camera.

Do you make scrap pies?  Leftover crust and pumpkin or cherry filling get baked in a smaller dish so as not to waste any yummy pie.  These always seem to get eaten first!

In other news, the Shoofly quilt sections are quilted, and sewn together.

Last night I was working on sewing down the backing seams by hand.  Making the quilt in sections makes it possible for me to quilt it easily on my domestic machine, but it does mean I have to do a little hand sewing to make it work.  That's okay with me!

On the front, you can't tell it wasn't made in one piece.  In the photo above, the row with the purple and dark blue block is from section one, and the row with the pink block is from section two.

At the top and bottom of the quilt, there is extra batting and backing, just waiting for the next step--borders!  

Mr. Biddy thinks it's cozy just as it is.

I hope you're having a cozy weekend, doing whatever you love to do best.  Thanks for reading!

Cheers,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with:

Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

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Cynthia at Oh Scrap