Piece Out, Linus!

 Sometimes, some seasons of my quilting experience, all I want to do is piece. Don't ask me to cut, or sandwich, or actually quilt! That is one extremely cool thing about quilting for the Linus Project. Our local group, at least, lets you do what you want. If you never get to that sweet spot of wanting to quilt, you can hand in the pieced top for someone else, someone who likes to sandwich and quilt, someone who may even have a longarm machine at the ready, to complete your pieced top. How cool is that? So, I can piece and send it out the door to Linus, no worries. 

Piece out, Linus, indeed!

The above design is from an "EASY" (!?!) quilt pattern I ran across in the March/April 2013 magazine Quilt It Today. The one featured on page 22 was called "Paisley Paradise" and was cool and seaside summery in tone. The no-name quilt top I made was pieced with a thirteen or fourteen year old boy in mind. Linus often lags in quilt offerings that seem just right for boys in their 'tweens'. Happenly, this was also M&M's candy's 75th anniversary! 

That reminds me. One problem I ran into with this one was that my final border was just a smidge wider than the WOF. I really didn't want to cut one of the M&M's off in order to get the extra width needed. What to do? Well, what I did was make some tri/rec pieces to put at the center points of each border. Problem solved.