Trail Mix - A Further Update

As I said yesterday, I hoped to get all the blocks for Trail Mix completed this month.

Yes, you guessed it - I have completed the remaining 72 blocks, or six rows.  That is 144 completed blocks.

It doesn't look much, does it, but, yes, there are 72 blocks here.

They are now all packed away in my pretty tins - very full tins they are too.

I haven't laid them out to have a look at them and won't do so until next month, otherwise you know what will happen, and then I will definitely fall behind on my other goals.

This was the first project in which I have spun the seams - a la Bonnie Hunter.  It worked really well and the blocks are nice and flat.

Using my mini design boards worked beautifully, as did keeping my blocks together with wonder clips or, when I ran out of them, good old fashioned bulldog clips.

Of course, next month my goal will be to get the top made.  I will have to see what I have in the stash suitable for a border - or maybe decide not to have a border and make some extra blocks to make it a bit larger.  We will cross that bridge when we come to it. It will be wonderful if I can complete the quilt top without having to buy any extra fabric.  We'll see how we go.

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Anyway, enough about Trail Mix, now I have to hunt out another of my projects to work on.