Another Finally Finish: Rambling Rows and Squares

For someone who until this week hadn’t posted in over five weeks, this is now my second post this week; something I rarely do. I mentioned in my previous Post that I may have another Rambling Rows Quilt finished as long as there weren’t too many interruptions on Halloween. Sadly, the unexpected Snow kept many treaters away; I think we had less than 25 visitors and two snowball fights on our front lawn.

I wasn’t expecting to make another Rambling Rows but I am just having too much fun with this pattern. My stash of Just My Type fabrics by Patty Young for Michael Miller have been calling me for the past several years now. It doesn’t help that I can see the bin containing these fabrics from where I sew. Ever since I made the quilt above and gifted it to one of my Peeps’ daughter as a wedding shower gift in 2017, I’ve been wanting to make another quilt since I still had a nice stash left. I just love these modern retro/organic prints with fun colors in which there were a number of fabric collections which came out at that time and I think I may have purchased most of them. And I do love text prints which is expected for this aptly named collection. I did add some additional gray and solid prints and once again Basic Grey Grunge was happy to be included.

Four block types were used in the making of this quilt. I wanted to use large and small squares since these were leftovers from the previous quilt.  Once the blocks and strip sets were sewn, the quilt was a quick and easy make.

Once again, I quilted with straight and wavy lines with a dark gray Aurifil thread. The binding was the grey and natural crosshatch print which wasn’t my first choice. I wanted a darker print to accent the many prints but I was wrong, the gray was perfect. I didn’t make a pieced backing this time because I had eight yards of the stripe from the Just My Type collection and am glad I finally used it after sitting in the backing vault  for way over five years. The Just My Type Rambling Rows and Squares measures 56” x 80".

It would have been nice to take a photo of this quilt outside in front of a modern building or sculpture but it would take more than this to get me to travel downtown Chicago. I’m sure the Master Quilt Holder would agree and glad I settled for him dragging the ladder outside so I could take a pic outside of the quilt hanging from the gutter. I thought I would close with a collage of the quilt with paintings by, Twentieth Century Artists, Joan Miro and Jean ARP whom I studied in my Art History days about fifty years ago.

I was thinking that I could take a break from the Rambling Rows pattern but the fun will continue. The latest number has been pulled for the Country Threads Dirty Dozen UFO Challenge and one of the projects on my list already have strips cut and perfect for another Rambling Rows. But I’m not going to stop with this one because somehow I pulled fabric from another stash which I “accidentally”came upon so #5 and #6, here I sew. 

Linking up with: My Quilt Infatuation/NTT