Friday check in: Snowfall, estate sale, and bingo board with bonuses

 

We had 3" of wet snow yesterday.  It 's all melted on pavement and nearly all melted on grass, bushes, and trees.   Cloudy but dry today so I hope we can get a walk this afternoon.

Tuesday was month 13 of Barb M's estate sale.  Stevens went with me but I didn't get a photo.   The quantities are going way down.  Will the next sale in January be the last?  We shall see.  

I paid $1.60 per yard this time.  Many pieces of Thimbleberries (Paintbox 2002).  

Thank you for your compliments on the Bingo Board quilt I showed on Monday.  The second kit had both white- and black-bordered blocks and an assortment of floral prints (all from donations to the guild).   

The suggested setting was to cut the florals into squares and alternate them with the bingo boards.

I did something completely different!

I put my new-found knowledge of EQ8 to work getting accurate corner pieces for the octagon triangles.   I auditioned several prints for the large background and came across this multicolored print.   It was a remnant, 1-1/4 yard of 108" wide which works out to 3 yards.

The pieced back.

It's 40 x 72.

I made a placemat out of the scraps that resulted from cutting the triangles. 

And I'm using the trimmed-off borders from the bingo blocks with the floral prints from the kit to make 3-1/2" nine patches.

No plan for these yet.

Linking up with Finished or Not Friday  

and now it's time to begin Old Town, the 2024 Quiltville mystery!