Vintage HRTs

 

The other project I worked on at Sew Day was cutting out the pairs of purple and white rectangles that I need to do clue #4 of the Lupine Mystery.

There are so many "vintage" purples in here, a lot of which were the very first quilt fabrics I ever bought as I've always been a purple person. It was quite fun to use them all and remember "way back when" and to finally be using them again. The one in the lower left corner comes from at least two yard piece of fabric that I had probably bought to make myself shorts or some other piece of clothing. That never happened and I can probably use the rest of it for the backing for this quilt - memo to me.

The rectangles that you start out with are quite large compared to the finished block unit size. It's funny to see them together. I didn't remember to bring my rulers to Sew Day, so I came home with the two large stacks of the 23 more sets of rectangles to work with.

First Old Town Blocks

 

I felt my interest in getting back to work on the Old Town Mystery greatly revived after seeing friend Jaye's absolutely gorgeous finished quilt top in person. 

Jaye was so nice and gave me a little pep talk and reminded me of some useful block assembly tips so I got down to it and got my first block constructed.

Hey, wow! Just like that, the first block is done.

I laid out the next one to work on, and was happy to see how different it looks from the first one.

Here are the two finished blocks up on the design wall along with the pieced sashing and of course, one last surprise for me in the instructions to cut out 16 red cornerstones. I really like the look of it so far. 

Memo to me: I'm going to have to work hard on keeping the dark blues in the sashing away from the dark reds though. Rearrange this layout before sewing together.