Chunks of Love

 Happy Valentine's Day! 💝💞💘💗💖💕👄mwah!👄💝💞💘💗💖💕

Details from a Valentine's Day quilt that I made in 2010, I quilted in "All you need is love love love"

Well, here's the Patchwork Palooza quilt, all chunked. Be-Chunked? Chunk-ified? Or just plain Chunky?

Or maybe it's just time for some Chunky Monkey ice cream? (which is gluten free btw). 

It's now sitting up there in just six pieces, all are two blocks wide, three are three blocks high, and three are four blocks high. I'm thinking I'll sew the fours together, the threes together and then there will be one long seam in the middle. And then I have to consider if it needs a 3" or 4" border of the navy blue on the outside. And what to put on the back.

Palooza Chunks

 

Final starting point picture that I'm working from as I assemble the Patchwork Palooza quilt top.

Trying the quilt chunking method that friend Jaye uses for quilt top assembly. Here's how it looks once the first two chunks were done. These are big blocks, so not a lot of real estate getting uncovered.

Four chunks done, and only two more columns to go. Had to quit because my wrist was aching from so much ironing. I can't wear my wrist brace and use my Oliso iron normally. The sensor in the handle doesn't work well without skin contact to put the feet down. I think I'll switch off the auto feet and use the iron rest that I have while wearing my brace to do the rest.

Ten Towards Chunks

 

Another ten Old Town blocks have the sashing and cornerstones attached, after I iron them, then it will time for some "Chunking." It's getting easier to sew these together as I go. We learn by doing and all that.

Some Scraps Corralled

So I've been lamenting my overload of scraps lately right?
Well, at last weekend's wonderful CQFA retreat, I managed to make a substantial dent in one of my scrap boxes by sewing random strips to a foundation. (The foundation was free fabric of course, the most atrocious seaside vacation print, no I'm not showing it to you, my retinas are still recovering).

The intention for these is to make many more of these quilt chunks of different sizes and then wide border them all in a deep red for a bed quilt. Or maybe black, we'll see.

I've been inspired by reading about scrap management at Quiltville. Not sure I'm into going quite that far to get the scraps organized, but it is making me think about how to make this valuable resource easier for me to actually use .