A bit of a side-step -

Some little itty-bitty 4-patches - in sets of 4 - with a few leftover "oddballs" -
for a scrappy pattern that I found on one of my favorite FREE pattern sites - AllPeopleQuilt - dot - com - that I'll tell you about later - it's a "mystery" - LOL - ;))

Then I finished Crumb Blocks - Set #9 -
Only 5 more sets to go - before I make the BIG blocks to "upsize"
my Deep Red Crumb Squares quilt top from a 4x4 layout to a 5x6 one -

After I cut this layer cake up -
Kaffe Fassett Collective for Free Spirit -

I told Frog Quilter -

I have a layer cake that I'm going to cut up for another "Basic Math" quilt for a Quilty Hug for you. It's one that I got from Craftsy - "Kaffe" prints. I don't know what the big deal is with his "collection" - the colors are pretty - but they all have the same "value" - medium. There are very few if any "lights" or "darks". Anyway - the prints are HUGE - and the pattern is simple - so it should show them off pretty well.

As you can probably tell - I'm not a big fan - but it was on sale - so I got it to see what it looked like "in real life". And I don't like it when they "pink" the edges - these are supposed to be 10" squares and barely make it to the inch marks on my cutting mat - on top of the fact that some of them are crooked - you can see the "slant" on the top and bottom stripes -

From the other angle - the left and right ones are crooked. Not that I particularly care - but if I cut it "straight" - I'll be short - and if I cut it to the "size" I need - the pieces will look crooked which then makes my work look sloppy - so it's a "no win" situation. You'd think - for as much as they charge for these things - that they could at least cut them straight. OK - down off my soap box - at least for now - LOL - ;))

Like I said - the colors are pretty - but they all read as "medium" to me -

To prove it - I edited this photo to show in black/white - so that you could see what I mean - but - much to my surprise - there ARE various shades of gray - so I guess it's NOT all medium - and it IS just me - LOL - ;))

But then again - I took this photo a while back on a charcoal gray background fabric that was in my stash. A friend of mine put it in a photo editor for me and made it shades of gray. We agreed that most of the "Kaffe" is almost the same value as the charcoal - ;))

Either way - the colors are pretty - and the Basic Math pattern - Moda Bake Shop - Original Recipe - by Debbie Grifka - HERE - should show off the prints pretty well - and it will make someone a nice Quilty Hug - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -