WITH TWO BITS YOU GET:

With two bits of fabric you can start a quilt.  Add two more, etc and etc, and you can end up with this:

I call this Quilt Pattern "Sweet Sixteen Gets Kissed". 

This is is my own pattern.  I made it from the trash I would have normally thrown away.  For years I have been cutting the tiny trash into squares and throwing them into a bag.  I had no idea what I was going to do with them.

I decided I needed to use the bag of 2" squares I accumulated. I have the need to control the outcome of my projects so sorted the squares (next batch I will sort as I go..lol).  I am not one who can just grab in a bag of of darks and a bag of lights and sew.  I would obsess when I pulled out a dark that it did not match with the light I pulled out.  The sorting began. I made a light bag and a dark bag of each color family. 

The squares were joined into four patch segments and the four patches were joined into a 16 patch block.  Then I constructed blocks the same size as the finished 16 patch block with a square in each corner which kisses the corner of the sixteen patch blocks.

Hence the name "Sweet Sixteen Gets Kissed".

The construction of these blocks is fairly elementary but I have a couple of techniques which made the top lay nicer.  I believe it will help with the quilting of the top. 

86" X 69"

Border sashing 6 1/2 inches unfinished. 

Construction techniques with pictures will follow in a blog titled:

"Sweet Sixteen Gets Kissed"

All pictures and Patterns presented here are mine. 

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