Red Squares quilt, FINISHED ! First finish of 2022.

 

Well, this one has had enough pictures of it shared while it was being made, but this time, it is FINISHED.

 The pattern is a repeat of one that I made in neutrals a couple of years ago.  The name I most recall is "Spot in the Middle",........I don't know; even that sounds wrong now.  Anyway, I don't even know what made me start this one except that it is such a simple block, and fun for playing around when you have a few scraps lying around.  Before you know it, you can have an entire quilt top......and it's one of my favorites !  

This one was pieced on my new JukiTL2010Q sewing machine.  I did not have to pin to make the blocks or to sew the rows together.  That machine is a dream piecer, and I ain't hatin' the thread cutter either !

I cut into every red, pink, and slightly purple that caught me eye, and then found that I had to go into oranges and yellows to have enough blocks.  I didn't want a lot of repeats, so two is about the most of any one print that I used.  

 Like the first quilt, I machine-quilted this one about a half-inch away on each side of each main block-to-block seam (using my Jazz  2 machine).  

Then I went back to add hand-quilting inside and outside of each block's center square, and did the borders in a wavy design. I did a fairly big stitch, but this time I just used white regular quilting thread, not a heavier thread as before.  I alternated between putting a circle or a square in the blocks.  

 The fabrics are quilting cottons, the batting is a cotton/poly contribution from Becky King at the senior center, and the back is pieced.   On top, the two lengthwise borders use part of a Kaffe Fassett half-yard bundle that I recently bought with multiple colorways of the fan print....(I had plenty to do all four borders, but didn't want the quilt to look that 'traditional'). The top and  bottom borders are from Walmart Fat Quarters that I LOVED so much when they came out, that I bought about SIX !  Good thing, too !

On the back, the Paris print is a 2 1/2 yard piece that I bought when Paris was THE DECOR, and my granddaughter was doing her bedroom in it.  I never got around to making her a quilt from it.  She's 18 now and onto other things, but if she wants it now, she'll have to wait for THE WILL !

When I brought out the Paris fabric recently, it felt so silky and smooth, and I"m mad about anything with bicycles,

 so I think the coloring of it is what set me on this red path. Of course, being 43 inches wide, I needed to add pieces to the sides, so after a 3/4 inch grey border, I used remnants of a piece that I bought for my mother, (never got to that quilt either),  but used for my daughter's "I beat cancer" quilt.  So this quilt is MINE, and will remind me of the important gals in my life, my mom, my daughter, and my granddaughter.

It finishes approximately 60 inches x 72 inches.....tops my twin bed without an end tuck.  That's perfect for adding an additional layer on these colder nights, and for adding color to the room.