New quilt in the making

Here is a new quilt (in the making). I have made all of the blocks. They are 4.5 inches square and four will be sewn together to make a full block.

The quilt is the one on the front of this book "Triangle-Free Quilts" by Judy Hopkins, but I am making more squares and not the border:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1564773930/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Started July 2019. Pattern name: Arctic Nights from the book Triangle-Free Quilts by Judy Hopkins (2002). Original quilt is 6x8 layout. I am planning 7x9 layout and a different border, if any.

I used 43 strips of dark-to-medium strips and 43 white/light strips.

Part of the design was to cut an 11-inch strip and then cut one inch off of the pair. Instead I sewed both sides of the 11-inch set and now I have 43 1.5-inch strip-pairs.

I also got an extra two-patch per 11-inch strip pair so I have 43 two-patches that are 1.5 inches by 2.5 inches.

New quilt makings

And then there were ends of the 2.5 inch strips that were not used.  Good grief, that is that a big pile!

Leftover fabric

I need to figure out how to use these. Maybe on the back? Or should I make a border?

43 two-patches

43!

43  (1.5 inches wide by 11 inches long) strip-pairs. I guess some folks would have just thrown these away?!

If I sewed them together, I would have a quarter of a yard of fabric!!!

I have already started sewing the sets of four blocks together so more pictures will be coming.

Flash Back - Flash Forward - 40 years diff

Me in 1977

Me in 2017

I'm still recognizable. A friend from college sent me the old picture. Too funny!

River's back to normal

The river is back down and you can see the "No Wake" post now.

Back to normal

River's still rising

The James River is the highest it has been in 10 years. Too much rain. What a mess it is making!

You can't even see the no-wake sign. That is the ripple toward the center of the picture. There is a ton of logs built up in front of the gantry holding the floating pier. I have no idea how they will clean it out of there when the flood is done.

Yesterday morning

Normally there is a stone terrace on the other side of the river but even the trees on the other side are under water.  Ugh!

Last night.

You see the lights? That is the Capital Trail bicycle path between Richmond and Williamsburg. Totally under water. Ugh!

I ride this trail from home to work when it is warmer. No riding it right now, however!

They are going to have a lot of clean-up to do when the river goes down.

A Finish!

I am wiping my sweaty brow! I have a finish. 8 yards used.

Just in the nick nick nick of time.

I have finished my raveled edge jeans quilt yesterday. It was 15x11 blocks, 6-inches each. According to the Quilter's Paradise calculations, it used 8 YARDS! Woo Hoo!

I finished it and immediately took it to the coin laundry and washed and dried it. It looks so nice and raveled! DH just _loves_ it. I made in "man" colors.

Pictures will be taken later today.

Here it is before washing and adding the binding. I didn't like the way it was without the binding so I added a 3.5" strips of binding. O, I forgot to add that into the mix of the yardage count. 7-8 strips of 3.5". Humm.

Front Side

Jeans side