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Double Delight Variation – Piecing in Progress

Oh Joy!  I got a wild hair over the weekend to make some progress on cutting this quilt  The pattern is Bonnie Hunter’s, and is supposed to be made entirely of scraps.  I decided to use fat quarters and yardage, because I collect way too many fat quarters on a weekly basis, and could use some stash busting in this area. The only reason I even persuaded myself to undertake this pattern is under the assumption that I could cut all the pieces with my AccuQuilt Studio.  In order to do that though, I had to recreate the pattern in EQ7 and play around with the block sizes until I got something approximate. Here’s the fabric and the pattern: The setting triangles will be a mixture of different colors of red and pink.  These are the only pieces I cannot cut with my die cutter, as I believe they are something like 19″ long.  I do have a rather large triangle specifically for this purpose, but I won’t know if it will work until I get the blocks pieced. So here’s most of it cut out.  You can see some pieces missing (the dark pink & cream) because I decided that I would also piece & cut the nine patches on my Studio. First I cut strips, sew them together into two strip sets, and then cut them apart the opposite way:Normally the half square triangles would have dog ears, but as luck would have it, that’s one die I don’t own in that size.  Drats to me for missing the sale on the 10″ block set! I still cut them on my strip cutter, it just took 3 passes. I ended up finishing the very center nine patches and the red and gold squares: It’s not enough to do block assembly yet, but it got me a lot farther on this project than I was before! To endless possibilities, Ebony

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