Scrappy Friends

If the way you spend New Years Day, is the way you'll spend the rest of the year, this day was a perfect way for me to start 2018! Two quilting friends came over to sew and we worked on the Quiltbug mystery called Scrappy Friends. 

We sewed blocks steadily all day, with a few mishaps here and there. The seam ripper was always close by and it was used quite a few times. When you're visiting and laughing, concentration lags sometimes! Can you tell who was not paying attention when making their friendship stars?!?

We worked steadily until productivity declined and then we stopped for lunch. We enjoyed a delicious lunch of homemade onion soup, 3 types of cheese, crackers, 4 kinds of hummus, and homemade pickles. 

And then it was back to the salt mines... I mean the sewing machines!

Here are the double friendship star blocks. We each made 6 of these blocks for the 3 pm clue and then we were getting a bit tired. I pushed on, sewed the sashing units and got all my blocks up on the design wall. By that time it was dark. We sewed the entire day away!

Here it is... my version of Scrappy Friends.

I'm very pleased with the way the fabrics worked together and love the pink stars. The problem is that all my sashing strips are a bit too long. I guess my double stars blocks are a bit too small? Batik fabrics generally have a higher thread count and are not amenable to stretching much. I can't fudge the size difference, so that means I will need to slightly alter all 27 sashing units before I can sew it together. I'll get right on that another day.
You can see Ellen's version of the mystery here.
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