I happened to glance up at my small design wall........
and saw that my scrappy combination of double 4 patch blocks were up there. I am heavy in the combination with the light chain and light in the ones with a dark chain to make the design come out even. The 4 corners should have all been dark chains.
I wasn't sure if I like the way 2 dark blocks come together at the corners of the center diamond so then I alternated dark and light chains within the center diamond. Once again I didn't have quite the right number with dark chains so 3 blocks in the outer rows are wrong in this one. I'm not sure which way I want it to be so I'll make some more blocks from the leftover basket quilt strips and add more rows.

I didn't feel like hand sewing on the binding yesterday so I started quilting the little baby quilt, also made with leftover 4 patches. I have 3 different machines that I quilt with. This one is the Babylock Quilters Professional straight stitch only machine. I really like the walking foot on this one because it has a nice narrow groove between the sides so your eye really stays on the seam line.

This machine also has a nice slow even speed so my ditch quilting is really in the ditch. When you want to go fast it does 1500 stitches per minute though, great for sewing on those long borders.

I only got both sides of the border quilted and 3 vertical rows out of 5 done. I still have the horizontal rows and then I have to decide if I will add free motion quilting or possibly some diagonal lines through the squares .

The weather was beautiful yesterday, not too cool, not too hot, just right.