HHQG donated blocks are now a finished top

After work yesturday, I grabbed my son, went and picked up my mom, and we all headed to Costco to pick up some stuff.  My son came along this time to select what types of hors d'oeuvres he wanted.  

A year after we moved to this place, we started a new holiday season tradition.  New Years Eve we gather here and spend the whole day together chatting, playing games, puzzles, running out for a quick Pokémon battle (lol, new development), and filling the day with togetherness!  

As part of that togetherness, we also take turns putting stuff in the oven for snacks throughout the day all the way to bringing in the New Year.  This day is basically a day of food indulgence, where you throw out any diets and just enjoy what is served.  Well, except for me who does not eat the food the kids wish for, but I still get involved in everything else.

By the time we finished our Costco run we had three of my son's long armlengths worth of food stuff, a couple more for everyday food, then a few loads of miscellaneous Christmas gifts/stocking stuffers.  You really don't want to know how much of a dent that did to my wallet....lol.  Costco is famous for that part....lol.

I dropped off all the goodies to the house and then headed to my mom's for our usual Friday evening get together.  But it was late this time, with the run to Costco.  By the time we sat down to dinner it was 9:00 pm!  Way past my usual and I didn't leave her place until five minutes to midnight!  Late for me.

So, needless to say there was no sewing of any kind happening.  Instead, for my post today, I'll take you back to June 23/2025, when I finished this top.

The blocks were part of the HHQG block of the month for 2024, and these blocks were all donated to the guild.  I took on the task of making a quilt top with these nine blocks.  I needed to come up with a plan to make these blocks into a large enough lap sized quilt.  

My first step was to make the blocks larger by sewing a triangle to each side.  This turned the blocks on point, which I felt made the blocks a little more interesting.  Most of the blocks have a chartreuse coloured piece in them or a fabric with chartreuse, in it.  To highlight the chartreuse, I decided to add on a stitch and flip corner to the large triangle pieces.

I thought that this would make a secondary design feature of a shoofly in the corners with the cornerstone, however I feel the cornerstone was a bit loud and the chartreuse a bit too soft that the affect was lost.  In person, it's still nice, but doesn't stand out as much as I thought it would.

It still turned out to be a nice lap size quilt to be finished off with quilting by another member of the guild.  This quilt will then be donated by the guild to someone in need of a hug.

Today, it's all about quilting the couple of quilts that need to be done before Christmas and if there is still time, I will clean up some odd miscellaneous chores around here.  Lately, I seem to always be making messes and cleaning up....lol.  All part of the creative journey!

Take care everyone.