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So…this story starts in the year 2000ish…

I received some pretty fat quarters for Christmas from my BFF who lived in Hawaii at the time. The fat quarters were fallish colors and as soon as I saw them I knew I wanted to make a Churn Dash block

In my mind I could see the blocks coming alive, I just need to pick up background fabric. At the time there weren’t a lot of quilt shops in the area, or at least any that I knew of and Google wasn’t as a big of a thing back then. I had seen an add for G-Street Fabric in Centreville VA so off we went. I had my fat quarters in hand and nothing was striking my fancy till I saw it…it’s like the heavens opened up and a spotlight was flashing over this beautiful bolt of a butter yellow fabric, it was PERFECT. I started off thinking I would need about 6 or 7 yards for the front and back and as the fabric was being laid out on the counter I kept saying…add another yard…when finally I just told the lovely lady helping me to give me the whole bolt…which was only about 10 yards but I loved it that much.

Let’s flash forward …. I still had the fabric and fat quarters, uncut and in 2004 we started on the journey of opening Kelly Ann’s Quilting and any personal projects got pushed to the back burner…heck, not even the back burner, it was taken and put on a shelf behind a closed cabinet door and the memory of the project faded.

As the years went on the fat quarters got used in various projects, some for projects for the shop where I showed people how to use what was in their stash, I think I actually still might have a few. I used the background fabric, but just a little at a time, because I loved it that much that I just couldn’t bear to cut into it too much.

It’s now 2020 and the world was shutting down and I started a block of the week/month on the Kelly Ann’s Creative Circle FB group and pulled out the butter fabric and used it in one of the blocks. (side note…I can’t find that block) After seeing the block, it was white with the butter yellow, I knew I had to do a two color quilt using that block with those fabrics…and I was aiming for king size…crazy I know.

EDIT***** I found the block

Now 2022 has arrived and I found where I had started cutting and piecing, mostly a bunch of half square triangles and a few 2 1/2″ strips sewn together, I put everything I found on my ironing board thinking I would get to it super quick…let’s all pause to laugh and laugh and laugh….okay…on with the story.

2023 and as I was starting to clean up the sewing studio I started on the ironing board….and yup, buried under a bunch of stuff I found the bin and just wanted to get the project done but decided not to go with the king size or even the original quilt pattern. So I grabbed the half square triangles and turned them into hourglass blocks, pieced four together to make a 9 1/2″ block, grabbed more of the sacred fabric, cut out squares to match the size of the pieced blocks, and started sewing them all together…and now this project is behind me, except for the quilting.

After taking the picture I realized that it’s not as “butter” as I remembered, it’s more gold and I wish I had laid out the quilt and taken a picture before piecing but over all I’m happy….and I think I have enough for the back and binding.

So there ya have it…the 10 yards of fabric purchased in 2000 has finally found it’s purpose and there might be a little life lesson in there…if you wait long enough you’ll see that everything has it’s purpose or buy the 10 yards now and it will soon speak to you … hahahahaha

Thanks for reading along

Until next time