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I just had to know how many pieces were in my finished broken dishes quilt top, so I did a little math. Each square with 16 smaller hourglass squares has 64 pieces.  Each of the larger squares has 16 pieces. There are 143 total squares in this quilt top, 63 of them the smaller blocks and 80 of the larger blocks.  That equals 4032 pieces in the smaller center blocks and 1280 pieces in the outer, larger blocks for a grand total of 5312 blocks, yow. Here are two pictures of the finished quilt! Now on to piecing my mother's birthday quilt... Susan

I need to put together four more blocks for an outside strip on this quilt and then the top is finished. The outer border strip on the right side nearest my ironing board is the missing outer strip.  Somehow I counted wrong and came up just a bit short on blocks, which is easily remedied. Here's how it looks in its "almost complete" state... There sure are a lot of pieces in this quilt top. I may just have to count them myself to see just what the final number is. How many pieces do you think there might be? Susan

My mother requested a quilt for her 80th birthday later this year, so it's past time to get started.  I decided to do a wild quilt with bright Kaffe Fassett Collective fabrics.  I am happy with my decision based on this first block I recently finished as a "test drive".  Here it is: Take a look at a full size view, too, with the block all trimmed and ready to go.  The Kaffe Plink in black and green, the very hard-to-find Gazania, his long out-of-print Organic Dots in gold and the Puff were the core fabrics I decided to use when selecting other more readily available prints and colors for this newest project.  It is quite a contrast to the Broken Dishes quilt top, which isn't nearly so bold and vibrant.  The pattern is actually a Kaffe pattern from one of his books (I forget which one!) called "Hearts and Gizzards". The quilt in the book is done in blue and white fabrics and is much tamer in appearance than this quilt will be. T his project