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~Blaise Pascal
Quilting
If you know me, you know there are still lots of strips cut. Way too many. After deboning the shirts and cutting some into smaller pieces than were easy to use, I sliced the rest into 4.5" strips. When the previous top worked out, I went looking for another idea with easy {larger} pieces. There's a pattern from 1942 called A Red and White Crisscross that looks like an X that I simplified. First, this X is made of two squares and a rectangle. Second, it's not a single block anymore. All the whites are squares, too. This meant I had to lay everything out to line up the fabric correctly but that's much easier than sewing eight triangles around each X.
The blue shirt strips were subcut into 12.5" and and 4.5" units while the white strips were cut into 4.5" squares and 7.25" squares. The larger ones were subcut into QSTs for the border.
With the Xs as a guide, I added white squares as needed to sew the diagonal rows.
I simply eyeballed the final rows by lining up the sewn line with the squares below. Of course, you could measure everything if you preferred. Haha.
There were enough of these pieces to make a second, slightly smaller top, too. At least one of these will become a donation when the weather cools enough to think about quilting.
They were fast and easy. Fewer seams means less fraying of these vintage fabrics.
Enjoy the day,
Ann
