That is looking GREAT!
I agree with a smaller case, & also no dog ears is a pretty nice finish.
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Can an item be 3 bingo prompts at once? Or should I do 3 separatev things?
So Pat Sloan is doing a March block a day sew along. Iāve got solid fabrics, print fabrics, and 2.5" strips all in one. (I do NOT have āiron/press responsiblyā soā¦ ignore that bit)
I didnāt plan to participate, but i bought a pink and a grey fabric bundle at my last guild meeting, and decided that would be a perfect use.
My first 4. Blocks. My plan is mixed size centers. But I may go with 2 quilts, 1 each size. Or I may run out of strips and just make one. TBD.
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I got one of the five quilts bound today, and hope to get another finished tomorrow at nap time. 
I have so much to get done this month!
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You have been a super woman for a few months!
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Leaders and enders. Do you use them? What are your thoughts?
For those who maybe donāt know - itās basically where you start/stop your intentional pieces with smaller scrap so thereās always something under the needle and it makes starting your next piece easier (i think thatās a good way to explain it?)
My guild had a leaders/ enders challenge a few years ago. Basically do that all year and make a charity quilt out of it at the end.
I didnāt. Somehow, despite hearing about it for years, it didnāt āclickā in my brain till last month. I was imagining āsew scrap piece, do main bit, sew scrap piece, remove fabric from machine/cut thread, start process overā and it just seemed like WORK. Last month it suddenly clickedā¦ LEAVE THE ENDER UNDER THE NEEDLE. Then it becomes the āleaderā for the next project.
Now that it suddenly makes sense Iām tryingā¦ but keep forgetting lol. But when Iām able to remember I can work on 2 projects at once.
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I do it off and on. I always process my scraps into a few sizes that I use often, one of which is 2.5" squares. I also use a lot of black, so I started pairing rainbow hued 2.5" squares with a plain black square (at least when I have dark thread in the machine). I ended up with a stack of a few hundred of them. I keep meaning to turn them into something. Either a specific color + black 6x6 blocks, like red + black, yellow + black, etc, or everyday placemats for my kitchen. (Marionberries made me an amazing set that I wonāt let anyone eat off of, because they are tiny works of art that I want to hang as wall quilts.) But I always seem to have quilt projects on the board, that take priority, so I havenāt gotten around to turning them into anything.
Though I DID use a ton of them up as the pieced border to this Black + Rainbow BOM quilt. If you scroll down, you can see how many I used in the staging photo on the bed. Those were all previous Leaders & Enders. The gaps I filled in from 2.5" squares in my bin, to try to make the color gradients as smooth as possible.
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Yes!
I have also used leaders and enders off and on. I used the concept to help piece together some strips for a quilt while working on another quilt and I remember using the technique somewhat recently, though I canāt remember what exactly I was stitchingā¦
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@MistressJennie that quilt is gorgeous!
@Edel I 
your patchwork heart (heart patchwork?) Pattern.
I suppose I should start cutting scraps to sizes. But theyāre just in storage bins, all jumbled together.
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That was one gorgeous quilt, but the story behind it was even better! You sure are inspiring! I have so many quilt blocks that I just need to face and do something with.
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I canāt remember if we can use the same project for two bingo prompts, but if so Iām using this. Iām really happy with how it turned out. There a rule that if a scrap drawer gets full to busting I have to make something. My 2.5" scrap drawer has reached that point, and I realised that there were a load of solid colours left from when I made my postcards from Sweden. I had no idea what to do with them, in an attempt to try out the technique, which Iāve not done before, i jelly roll raced them.
And it came out to be far too long in comparison to itās width, about 30" x 55" ā¦ But I rather liked how it looked. So I added a coloured border and then made some large flying geese units (based off 9.5" squares) from larger pieces of scrap and just two squares of yardage. All the white is a nice cotton sheet. And voila! I love it. Itās come up close to 70" x 70"
Iāve pieced a strip of flying geese units for the back and pieced a random solid strip for bindingā¦ Thatās the next task!
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Gorgeous & so modern!
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I bet that looks really fun on a bed! So cheery and bright.
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@Edel yes, we can combine bingo items. I asked too 
Also love your quilt!
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Love it darling!
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This looks great! I like your choice to keep the interior panel as is and just add around it.
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Todayās bingo prompt is:
Create a quilt top sized 42" square or larger
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I just dropped off these two quilts for donation to the 2025 Festival of Quilts!
-I MistressJennie , offer A Diamond in the Scraps Quilt for my medium challenge entry. (quilt something functional)
-I MistressJennie , submit A Diamond in the Scraps for my goal list entry (āmake at least 1 baby quilt to donateā).
-I MistressJennie , offer Blue Plate Special for Marchās Prompt (flowers)
-I MistressJennie , submit Blue Plate Special for my goal list entry.
Stashbust: make at least 1 quilt, of any size, out of primarily scraps/stash fabric.
Details in the project post:
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You have been so prolificā¦and I bet you are getting tired of blue and white. Any idea what color your next quilt will be?
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Oh sweetie they are beautiful and for such a good cause. Well done
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Simply awesome.
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