When sewing with Gail we use a bag full of tags for projects we want to tackle. I know that the Rag Quilt was one I added to the mix.

I had bits and pieces of flannel left from other projects; I spent a day at the Guild cutting the fronts and the backs out, as well as going through my batting scraps.

Sewing the sandwiches together went very quickly; even stitching the squares and rows together didn’t take long. The longest time was spent trimming the edges to get the fraying effect after it was washed and dried. I did most of that job on the day we had our 12-hour power outage; I had plenty of light sitting at the kitchen table and snipping. It was a bit hard on the hands but I did it in small batches.

This will be a donation quilt.

I still have plenty of flannel left and if I’d get busy and do some more sandwiching I’d have lots of batting. Since the project was a quick one I’m sure I’ll make another.

This table runner is made from left-over blocks from a Cake Mix Recipe Deloise gave me. The fabric is from the Farmer’s Daughter line; the idea of a Cake Mix is that it is made from 10″ squares which, in the quilting world, are called layer cakes.

I worked on the original quilt and two table runners in 2020; some of the work was done when Stacia, Deloise and I sewed together. My thought was that it was a bit dull but Deloise put it much better – it’s a low volume project.

What I love most about this is the neutral fabric. Can you read any of the writing?

I have no idea why I would have purchased the fabric I used for the backing – paper dolls and cut-outs were never my thing.

This project truly lived up to the theme of a handful of scraps. The quarter-square triangles are the cut corners from a recently completed quilt top. I made half-square triangles with them and then turned them into quarter-squares.

The sashing and cornerstones came from my 1.5″ scrap bin that I’ve been sorting through. The half-square triangles on the sides came from some cut corners that my friend Gail gave me.

I had to cut a couple of strips of yardage for the binding.

I had my doubts about this one from the very beginning. The cutting called for 3/4″ pieces by 2.5″ at the longest. It wasn’t until I was sewing the bits together that I realized that each of the 24 blocks had 13 pieces; for the record that is a total of 312 pieces not counting the borders. That is a lot of pieces for a 12″ x 12.5″ project.

But this was my June project for sewing with Stacia and Deloise and I didn’t see any point in putting it off – those pieces weren’t going to get any bigger. Our schedule was for just one day of sewing together but I had to take another full day to get this done.

Now that it is done and hung it might be one of my favourite patterns from the book.