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I have entered a bit of a "quilting sidebar", setting aside the Mendocino quilt top and deciding to finish up my Kaffe Broken Dishes quilt back so that this "5312-piece-top" of a quilt can be put together and find a new home on my granddaughter's bed here at my house. Here is a picture of the Kaffe quilt back while it was under construction. It is all finished now with Carla Miller's long OOP green and pink "Chicken Scratch" fabric totally surrounding the 48-inch wide broken dishes piece you see here. I also got the itch to try a "One Block Wonder" hexagon quilt just to see what happened.  It was an awful lot of fun to prepare and construct these hexagons.  They certainly do not look at all like the original fabric that I used, except for the range of colors that are displayed.  Here are the quilt top pieces laid out and ready to be put together.  Just for fun, here is a picture of the gorgeous peacock fabric I used for thes...

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

The Wonky Star Quilt top and back are officially finished and ready for quilting and binding.  It's always fun to finish one project and start with the next one, isn't it?  Here is a picture of the quilt top to the right with all of its many pieces sewn together. The back is a wide Echino green dots print with a strip of leftover Echino squares from the front. All of the squares on the front are made from Echino prints. Now it's time to have fun with my next project.  I have been waiting to do this particular project for a long time. It's Kaffe's Broken Dishes Quilt from his book Kaleidoscope of Quilts .  Many years ago I bought most of the fabrics for this quilt and put them away for future use!  I am so glad I did that way back when. The picture to the left is of Kaffe's finished quilt straight from the book.  Isn't it gorgeous? I am using Carla Miller's mint green chicken scratch as my quilt back. The fabrics I was missing (so...