Both of the donation quilts have been quilted!
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I have one quilt where pre’sewing it all lines up. But once sewn it’s off. I am notorious for not pinning. So when I get around to it again I’m going to carefully pin a lot.
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I finished two small donation quilts that were in-process for awhile now! And that had me wondering what I have, and haven’t submitted for prompts in this craftalong. Looks like I finished a lot of things, and never submitted them. So here they are. My apologies for the fact that you’ve probably seen most before.
-I MistressJennie, offer Rose Garden Quilt for my large personal finish.
-I MistressJennie, offer Farmyard Friends & Safari Baby Quilts (together) for my medium personal finish.
-I MistressJennie, offer "2 Harry Potter quilts for donation for my small personal finish.
-I MistressJennie, submit 2 “unexpected” Harry Potter quilts for donation for my goal list entry.
After finishing the binding on these last two today, I went through my bucket of in-process pieces, and pulled out the ‘expected’ HP donation quilt, and started putting the blocks together into a top. Somehow I dont’ have enough pieces… I’m missing 3 4-patches, and 3 solid blocks. I can get more of each fabric, I just don’t want to. Not sure what I’m going to do, as I don’t want to spend more money on these projects, but I do want them done, and gone from my house. Oh well, Ada woke up from nap so it’s tomorrow’s problem!
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Wow, you’ve accomplished so much this quarter! I love your binding choices on all the quilts!
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This was driving me nuts, so I just went through my bins to make sure I wasn’t missing anything. Nope, nothing in there. Then I did some FQ quilt math, to make sure I wasn’t crazy. Finally double checked my quilting student (Melissa’s) project, and after all that, I figured out where my missing blocks are…
I had 4 FQ’s of the Hogwarts House prints (one of each house), which yielded 30 3.5" blocks each. That gave me 30 4-patches, enough for 2 donation quilts. I have 12 4-patches sitting here. Melissa finished quilting her quilt, which should have had 15 4-patches in it (5 x 6 block layout). I just unfolded her piece, and she somehow put together a 6 x 6 block quilt, without either of us noticing. And thereby ‘stealing’ the missing blocks for my second donation quilt.
I have a few options…
Plan A: Take these pieces and make a mini donation quilt. (Maybe add extra borders to make up size?) I would still need to buy about 1/4 yard, to get that single missing black block at the bottom center, but I could use stash fabrics as the backing. Cost: about $4, with a little bit of scrap leftover (of a fabric I do like).
Plan B: I buy another FQ bundle ($8), another yard of the black ($7-13), and another yard of the border print ($8). I would have enough to finish this partial quilt, and make another entire duplicate quilt, both 6 x 7 blocks. At that size, I don’t have stash fabric for backing, so that’s $24+ more to spend, without backing fabric.
Plan C: I decide not to deal with this now, and throw it all into stash. That will drive me extra crazy as I’m attempting to stash bust as much fabric as possible this year.
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Glad you figured out the mystery of the missing blocks! I think it is awesome that you have a quilting student (and that she got a bonus, larger quilt! 
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I think plan A sounds the best when you have recovered from your solving the mystery! You can use any extra blocks for the backing as well, so it should not be that costly.
You have truly been on a stash-busting-make-all-the-quilts roll!
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If I remember right, you have an embroidery machine? If you do, you could embroider something HP related on plain black fabric (assuming you have some in your stash 
) & make it the very center black square of the quilt. 
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Ooh, I like this idea! Another option would be to embroider the four house crests on black fabric and put them at the corners.
Also, yay for solving the mystery!
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That’s an amazing idea! Seriously great way to fix it. Unfortunately I’m not sure if I can donate it that way though. The charity wants 100% cotton fabrics and batting, because the quilts get washed and dried on high heat at the hospital. Embroidery thread is usually rayon.
But this is such a great idea….
Anyone need an embroidered HP baby quilt???
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The charity wants 100% cotton fabrics and batting, because the quilts get washed and dried on high heat at the hospital.
That makes sense! Maybe something like a simple paper pieced pattern with a black background would be better?
Though your plan A would probably be easiest. 
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Easy fix…looks great, thought! Good job for just learning it during nap time!
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Yay! It looks great! 
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It looks carefully planned! Great job! Someone is going to love it!
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Beautiful save!
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Community to the rescue!
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Awesome!
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