Ta-da! Astrid and I Completed a Quilt!

Our collaboration quilt is completed!  Marsha here.  It looks great and we are happy with it.  If you compare the finished quilt with the photos in the previous post you may notice, or not, that one strip of fabric in the center block has been changed.  We ripped it out and replaced it with a strip not as blue/green as all the other ones surrounding it.  Astrid may be a little bit anal.  

We have no idea what this pattern is called.  We think it is a modified courthouse steps quilt.  We hope you like it as much as we do.

If you have not tried sewing different pieces of fabrics together to see how they look, you should try it.  It could be a pillow cover or a placemat.  It does not have to be a quilt.  See you next time!

We Lost Something . . . Where Did It Go?

How did that happen?  We lost the month of February of 2023!!  We will never see it again.  Things are just happening, then the next thing we know it is March, and we had not managed to post anything in February!  I guess after helping Jane with her amazing tutorial, we all just got back to our own stuff.  We all apologize.  Marsha and I (Astrid) are actually doing some collaborative quilting (that means working together).  Below are photos of it in the design stage, which is where we are today.

These blocks are rectangular. They start out like courthouse steps, then the final round is sewn in the off-set frames fashion.  We have been thinking we are making the blocks too big, but too late now.  

They are on our design wall, which we made out of foam core board that we covered in black flannel.  The blocks really pop on that black.  We have four more blocks to sew together, then we can sew the blocks to each other, etc.  Our goal is to get it all completed by the end of March.  I am telling Marsha, we should probably make another one of these with wonky blocks and some solid black backgroundishness.