A Moldie Oldie

9 Years is Enough!

When I heard my niece was getting married on 10-10-10, I quickly put together a modern-ish throw quilt for their NYC apartment. (I had to dig through my old computer to find this terrible photo.)

Wanda/Exuberant Color told me the pattern is "It's Good to be Square" 
by Roxanna and Stephanie Prescott for A Quilter's Dream. 

I recently found four of the 16-inch blocks in my orphan block box that have stay stitching on the edges so it looks like I removed them to improve the proportions of the gifted quilt.

Stay stitching

I considered passing these blocks on to the Devo group but I realized they would need more of the brown/black/tan batiks to really do them justice.  I didn't mind divesting myself of some batiks that I rarely use anyway but since I didn't have the pattern, I wanted to be sure I had the right measurements.  I made a test block.

Test Block

It looked and measured like the leftover blocks, so the cutting commenced.

Before I knew it -- well, really, two days later -- I had kitted up 15 more blocks.  My dear friend was back from the spa and I needed to make sure she was working properly before taking her on retreat next week.

Baby-Lock Quilt Pro

Three more blocks ..

... joined the original four ...

The other 12 will have to wait for retreat.  And I may keep this one....