Since the beginning of September when the Country Threads Dirty Dozen Challenge project number and color was announced, I’ve been busy working and finishing the two projects I designated. My first project, the Kitty Corn Mix, was made possible with Mary Etherington’s choice of the color Orange to be September’s color. Normally the color is drawn but she thought with Fall approaching that the participants wanted to work on projects with pumpkins. I was more than happy to switch to my Orange projects from the Neutral projects which was my #11, the number Mary did pull, because I did want to finally make something with the Kitty Corn fabric purchased last year. Also, this would be a quilt for my favorite recipient, the darling Granddaughter.
With the jelly roll and one yard-cuts of two focus prints and the black and white gingham, I came up with a version of the Ernie Quilt. I did make a slight change later to not making the kitty blocks with the black and white gingham because I didn’t have enough fabric plus the kitty print is just that cute.
The blocks are 8.5”x12.5” and there is a mix of five different types; two were just plain cuts of the two focus prints, one was a four patch block with the two focus prints which was made because there wasn’t enough of either focus prints and two type of rail (Ernie) blocks made either with two prints or somewhat scrappy since again I was out of jelly roll strips.
I spent some time arranging or tweaking the blocks in a controlled layout; the rail blocks with black were in the center, the rail blocks with teal green were next to the black blocks and the blocks with the light green are on the outside. The plain blocks with the kitty print are in the center and the blocks with the black focus prints are on the outside. There were some blocks made with the plum prints and I decided not to include them in the quilt. After the above pic was taken, I did make one more “tweak” and then I was ready to sew.
Machine quilting in a light Apricot Essential Thread with my go-to straight and wavey lines went well. The binding was the black and white gingham print and I’ll say it again, I just love binding my quilts with a gingham print. Also, I was lucky to find the gray and white dot print in the backing vault. The Kitty Corn Mix Quilt measures 56” x 84” which is a nice size for both the darling Granddaughter and I to snuggle under. It’s nice to already have a quilt finished in time for Halloween and I will be taking it to the GP House this weekend.
I really have to stop making my quilts so long as it’s getting hard for the Master Quilt Holder. Fortunately, he was able to hold it up by standing one the front porch and letting Kitty Corn Mix hang down. I’ll be posting soon another quilt finish for the UFO Challenge and this one we needed the ladder. Stay tune!
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