Good Golly Gretchen!

I am laughing at the possible names for my Gretchen block quilt –

The best one of all – but one I won’t use though I’m still laughing – Fetchin’ Gretchen!

Only because the name takes me to my Dear Jane days where the Dear was relative and interchangeable with things like Dang, Dastardly, Dumb, Dipsh*t and many times found myself saying “That (*&(*& Jane Block!”

I can see “Fetchin’ Gretchen” being turned into FLIPPING Gretchen and worse with other F words…LOL!

I haven’t counted the number of pieces in this quilt. I never do. I just sew it until it is done. Piece count does not give you bonus points.

But by nature there are a LOT of pieces in this quilt, and though the piecing is easy for those who love paper piecing the way I do, it’s going to take some time and may resort to some name calling during the process.

But I can at least now say that borders are ON!

And things lined up just fine, and framed the quilt just the way I had hoped!

I love this corner turn!

Getting that last border side on there!

Yes, even the Bumble Bear made it in!

This quilt has EVERYTHING!

Happy Happy Happy!

So now what?

I’m making a purple super scrappy backing!
This bin has got to go.
And yes, you can see Hazel in the background just wondering what I’m so giddy about.
I have done one in blue, one in pink, one in yellow…and I’m continuing on with my desire to turn otherwise “lesser loved” hunks and chunks into something wonderful. I am refusing to just go out there and BUY a backing when I can do something fun with what I already own.
I’m not in a hurry to get this quilted. This will go in the line up of things to be released as PDF patterns in the future – maybe late summer.
I can spend a few days making huge improv blocks out of these pieces, empty a bin in the process and just all around have some fun.
Oh and this happened yesterday:

I TOUCHED FLASH!!
Of course, he jumped back like he’d been electrocuted, but this is huge progress.
I just sat my butt down on the porch next to his food….and eventually he snuck up to grab bites and then back off. But it’s still huge progress!