Flannel quilts - progress

The courthouse steps quilt is now pin basted!

I have had this backing for some time. I had to take my time to piece it together so the stripes sort of matched. The fabric is 56" wide and a bit thinner which made it better for a back. I have enough to make a second back for a quilt this size - approx. 60" x 76" after quilting.

I need 19 more log cabin blocks for another top - I had one already made - so I got to work. I chain stitched the blocks which means I laid out the blocks and rough cut the piece I needed. I wanted to make the blocks look random, so some planning had to go along with this! Kind of an oxymoron! LOL!!!

It took me longer than I thought it would, but I did get all 19 blocks made. Here are the blocks ready to be sewn together.

I still had a bit of the blue flannel left so I cut these strips to make a zig zag quilt. I will be adding some natural colored flannel in between these.

But wait! There's more! I have these pieces left which I have another top in mind to make with them. I will be adding some solid navy and medium blue flannel in the mix.

And finally there will be a top with either four or nine patches to use up the pieces that were too small to use in the log cabin quilt.

So that will be 5 large lap quilts once they're done! I will have look for the sales order for the blue flannels to see how much I had bought. I am just curious. I also spent time washing fabric. Some of the fabric was from the recent sale including the 6 yard piece of flannel, and some of it was flannel I have had for a while. I had bought a whole bolt of natural color flannel and one of a gray flannel from Zink's in Berlin, Ohio, years ago. I needed to get a piece of the natural washed for the zig zag top. Here it is tossed on a chair waiting to be pressed.

Oh that's a big pile!