true blue

True Blue - A Flimsy, Pieced Backing from Grandma's Red Needle

'True Blue' is a flimsy!

I started working on this quilt in January this year, when the selected RSC (Rainbow Scrap Challenge) color was blue. I was not supposed to start anything new, but...

1) I couldn't resist making a blue and white quilt

2) it's a relatively small quilt with only 20 big blocks

There are 3 different blocks, easy to make, before the corner units.

Bad me seldom read carefully through any pattern. I didn't realize it calls for 160 triangles! First I read it was 80, but that is sets of 2 triangles!

OK ...

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True Blue - Progress from Grandma's Red Needle

I worked on True Blue in January, when the chosen RSC color was blue.

Unit #1 and #2 were done, and part of unit #3.

The last days I'm working on True Blue again

The last 4 blocks of unit #3 are done

...and I'm almost done with the corner units.

I have to make 160 triangles! I'm almost there! 24 to go!

I'm making it scrappy; one triangle at a time. I have so many 1.5" strips to use. I was struggling with the first corner units; the pressing direction (on the pattern). I ...

added by Astrid 1 month, 2 weeks ago. under quilt blocks , true blue , wip

RSC January 2026 - Week 5 - Blue from Grandma's Red Needle

January Blues continue into February.

This post was meant for previous Saturday, but that didn't happen.

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