I had a bunch of Kim Diehl fabric leftover from a project eight to ten years ago. Part of it was 2 1/2 inch strips. So I looked for a pattern that had lots of small pieces. I also like the challenge of making different blocks, although I have to admit I didn’t like the extra time it took to cut each block separately.

I dragged this tote of fabric around the country. Here’s a picture of blocks hanging on my design wall at Bonnie Hunter’s Quiltville Inn.

Blocks made at our lake house in Northern Michigan.

Since I get my most accurate 1/4 inch seam on my old straight stitch machines I used either one of my Singer Featherweights or one of my Singer 301’s

Apparently I did not get any photos of the blocks I made in Texas.

Three rows done.

Laid it out on the living room floor. Which can be tricky with my dog in the house. She thinks every quilt is a new place for her to sleep. But actually in this picture she is laying on her bed in the top right corner.

Here it is all quilted and putting the binding on. Yup, about six inches short of binding. Notice the backing, I was lucky enough to get a Kim Diehl wide-back at Seven Sister’s Quilt Shop.

It took me over a year to finish this quilt. I still had fabric left over, as well as a good size piece of the backing. So I cut 2 1/2 inch squares and started piecing them together.

Which turned into these 12 x12 blocks. There they are sitting in that same tote I’ve hauled all over.

All those 2 1/2 inch blocks created this beauty. In my mind it’s actually a free quilt since all the fabric for the top was leftover fabric.

I tried to show the back of the first quilt, which is the fabric for every other block in the smaller quilt.