This is my “Am-I-blue-without-you-in-Colorado-Judd” quilt. The first week I was in
Grand Junction I found a behemoth of an old baby blue sewing machine at
Goodwill. Seriously, it must outweigh what three of my Singer featherweight
sewing machines would weigh or 1.5 of what my Pfaff weighs. (Yes, now I have
three sewing machines again. I gave away my mother’s Brother last year.) Baby
Blue looked like it had all its working parts. Although I could find NO brand
name anywhere, for $14.99 I schlepped it back to the Residence Inn to see if it
would work. I was told I had 1 week to bring it back if it didn’t it. It did!
I had received a Jo-Ann Fabric gift
certificate from Judd for Christmas and it is quite a luxury to pick out new
fabrics instead of shopping in my fabric stash for various sized scraps with
which to make-do. I picked out 8 dark blues and 8 light blues and a couple of
accents. (And now I have new scraps for future mini-projects.) The quilt pattern
is from a Stack a Deck quilting book where you free-hand cut shapes and shuffle
a pre-arranged stack of 9 x 9 inch fabric squares. You don’t have to match
corners when you sew; you just plan on overages at the edges but after you
pizza-cutter cut the edges, you end up with 7 x 7 inch big squares all the same
even though all the concentric internal squares are catawampus. I just love to say that word. You might have
a pile of seven squares the same shapes, but because you’ve scrambled the
fabrics, no two squares are alike. Voila!
