It happens! Sometimes I can't get going on a quilt I want to make. Maybe I just need a couple of fat quarters of a particular color or even a whole infusion of fabric. Or, I need something like a heat and bond product, or more of my favorite piecing thread. Whatever -- I need a trip to my out-of-town quilt shopping sources, and our schedules (my other life) or the weather preclude the trip. Well!!! I get 'out of sorts' if I don't sew each day, so I need what I call a placeholder project. This usually involves a simple, small block from my scraps and repeated many times for a geometric design; lots of mindless, repetitive sewing over an intermittent period of time. This is such a quilt, and I finally finished the sixty-four 4" blocks needed.
The simple block repeated 64 times --
THE STATS: "Bread and Butter", 2023, 40"x 40", Paper Pieced, Machine Pieced, Machine Quilted.
It may be nothing special, but I like it and enjoyed scrounging through my brown, yellow, and beige scraps which span several decades!
Not just bread and butter, but probably a little peanut butter thrown in!
Edited to add: These aren't very good photos -- the sun was so bright and hot that I didn't have a lot of patience. I'll retake them for documentation someday when conditions are better. The quilt is not that spectacular any way, but the pictures didn't help!!
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