double 4 patch

Sewing more strips................ from Exuberant Color

After I sewed all of the purple/green strips, I moved onto the brown/gold orange/yellow group. I have all but 2 sewn together.

Yesterday morning I played with an alternate layout, random rather than all 4 matched squares together.

Here are the 2 layouts side by side, the one on the left, the original layout of all 4 alike together as a group, and on the right, a random layout of the same blocks. Why would I choose one over the other? It is a matter of what size quilt I want to make. The group of 4 ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months, 2 weeks ago. under batik , double 4 patch

More blocks........................ from Exuberant Color

Yesterday morning I cut the 4.5" squares for all 6 combinations and last night I sewed the 24 blocks.

It was -7 when I checked yesterday morning and we never got above 0 all day. I had to go out to PT and with the sun shining it didn't feel as cold as I expected.

Today is starting out in the minus degrees too but we will get above 0 today.

I went through the new pile of strips I found in the basement and there were 3 more greens and purples. This will make 12 more blocks ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months, 2 weeks ago. under batik , double 4 patch

Continuing on............... from Exuberant Color

The 4 patches for 24 more blocks are sewn and just waiting for me to cut the 4.5" squares to go with them.

I was pretty sure there was another box in the basement with more pairs of the 2.5" and 4.5" strips. I knew where it was (yes, really!!) so I retrieved them and counted 36, which will make 72 blocks. So far I have only sewn the purple/green combinations. If I sew all of these plus the ones left from the first group I showed a few days ago, I will have 138 eight ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months, 2 weeks ago. under batik , double 4 patch , star quilts , strip piecing

September 2025 Monthly recap.................... from Exuberant Color

Big and small, but 2 finishes anyway. The 16 patch on the left is all Marcia Derse fabric, both front and back. It is 78" x 95". On the right, a double 4 patch, is Kaffe collective and Martha Negley fabric and is 40" x 59.5".

I only completed one top, and that's fine with me. I'm gaining on finished vs. started.

This one is all Kaffe collective fabric. I was trying to use up some green triangles which I had overcut for a previous project. It was fun adding the Brandon Mably plaid in this one ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 8 months, 1 week ago. under double 4 patch , kaffe fabric , monthly recap , tablerunner , zig zag

First finished quilt for September 2025.................. from Exuberant Color

This quilt was made from one of those boxes of blocks that I unearthed last year and which finally came to the top of the list for quilting. If I remember right I had to make a couple blocks to be able to finish the top. It's a small one, 40" x 59.5", so it was easy to quilt on my Pfaff. The fabrics are Kaffe Fassett collective and Martha Negley. It has Hobbs 80/20 batting in it.

The backing is a fun print designed by Brandon Mably. The binding is 4 different fabrics, 2 strips of ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 8 months, 3 weeks ago. under double 4 patch , kaffe fabric

It's finished................. from Exuberant Color

I had 3 things on my list to do yesterday; one got done. I'm not sure where all the rest of the hours went.

Since this double 4 patch quilt is so scrappy, I looked in the box of Kaffe 2.5" strips and chose 5 that looked okay together for the binding. The twig stripe is a Martha Negley print and there are some MN prints in the quilt top.

I got it sewn on, finished last night.

Just another view of all 5 strips and front and back of the quilt. I think it looks good. I ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 8 months, 4 weeks ago. under binding , double 4 patch , kaffe fabric

Quilted................ from Exuberant Color

The daylight coming in the west windows of my studio show off the quilting better than overhead lights at night.

I finished all of the quilting yesterday afternoon and got the quilt trimmed last night. There is ditch quilting top to bottom and side to side along the edges of the 4 patches, 5" apart.

I cut 4.5" strips for the top and bottom borders of the zig zag quilt top. I wasn't sure how wide to cut it and figured if I thought it was too wide, I can cut it down.

We haven't had any ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 9 months ago. under double 4 patch , kaffe fabric , zig zag

Bear Paw......... from Exuberant Color

One of the labeled boxes I showed a couple days ago had 4.5" squares in sets of 4 alike. I know I cut most of them in 2008 because I made the quilt shown below that year and lots of the fabrics in the box are in that quilt.

I started thinking about what block I could use them in and remembered my Bear Paw die. I already had a stack of the triangle blocks sewn so all I had to cut was the long light rectangle and the 4 corner squares. I have plenty of dark small squares ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 5 years, 7 months ago. under batiks , double 4 patch

More fall quilts............. from Exuberant Color

This double 4 patch which I named Chocolate and Caramel is from 2010 and lives in TX now. I really had fun making it.

This one using my Stack and Slash pattern hangs on the back of a metal bench in my living room.

I made this one in 2013 of the softest flannels I have ever worked with. This one lives in Nebraska.

This is another cozy flannel quilt made from the Stack and Slash pattern. I'm not sure who has this one because I made 2 the same year and I get mixed up who got which ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 5 years, 7 months ago. under double 4 patch , flannel quilts

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