Meadow Mist SAL Finish

Cheryl Bickey from Meadow Mist Designs featured a sew-a-long last spring using her book, Just Two Charm Packs. I participated in that sew along, but did not get mine finished by her deadline. Nonetheless, it is finished today and I love the result.

The pattern is called Betty. It is a granny square type design and the Moda charm packs I used were Field Notes, by Blackbird Designs. A Kona banana solid was used for the sashings and the borders. I was lucky to find a yard of the large floral print in the same design line on ebay to frame the quilt nicely. The backing is a bird toile type fabric that I sewed the two lengths together to make it doubly wide enough to cover the entire quilt. The label is sewn in the corner and now it is done.

Its finished size is 52" x 64" which is a nice throw size. And I used a total of 8 yards of stash to make it.

There are plenty more ideas for using up charm packs in Cheryl's book, Just Two Charm Packs.  I may have to revisit that book since I have plenty more charm packs in sets of 2, 3, and even 4. Most of which were purchased during quilt shop closing sales.

 

Although we tend to think that charm packs are a quick and cheap purchase (ranging between 9$-12$) they are actually premium priced when you figure what you are actually getting with those 42 5" squares. They layout to about 25" of a regular width of fabric. That is slightly over a half yard. But we do get an entire line of fabrics that all coordinate with one another. And they are fun to work with because of that. 

This Betty quilt makes my 5th finish this year bumping my total of stash used to 54 yards.

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The garden is beginning to give us fresh produce. It is always fun to go out and see what is ready for picking and plan our evening meal around what is available. We often eat just veggies for supper during the growing season. Just add some crusty bread and its a meal! Do you eat likewise in the summer?

Right now we are picking green beans (long tender filets), zucchini, and cucumbers. This year our "try something new" was Armenian Cucumbers. 

 

Armenian cucumbers are the long light green ones you see above. They are from the melon family but tastes like cucumbers and grow in hot weather.  I just found a recipe for cucumber bread that I want to try. 

Stay safe. Enjoy your summer and garden. And happy stitching!