Tying Down the Blues

or bowtie blocks update

I first posted about these blocks in this post for ScrapHappy Day. They're for a friend  who had a hankering for a blue quilt, so rather than she pay $300 for one, I offered to make her one from my blue scraps. I had made 12 back then, and try to sew a few every day, cutting some more each time, ready for the next session.

So I've doubled the number and have 24 now.  I'm not sure how many I'll make, maybe keep sewing until I run out of blues?  Although my selection has been added to with some blue scraps from a friend - long skinny pieces, rather than scraps though.  Some are a scant smidgeon off 4.5 inches, but since I'm sewing the blocks together, I'll make it work.

Here are the latest batch, just put up for the photo, and not arranged into any sort of pattern yet. 

Time now to stir this lazy hound and take her out for a walk before the forecast storm hits.....it's becoming a regular event to batten down the hatches before the afternoon's torrential rain and hailstorms swoop in.