Abundant Blessings

 

This quilt started out as a boxed kit for a 65”x85” quilt with twenty 12” finished blocks. I found the Civil War prints and the Aunt Dinah block pictured on the top of the box especially attractive. Once I got it home and opened it up, I discovered there weren’t instructions for twenty different blocks inside. It was more like eight or nine, repeated. But I’m flexible. I made twenty different blocks, and then I made ten more. It’s 85”x96” now; big enough for a queen-sized bed. Because I didn’t want to spend extra time on a pieced border, I bought a couple of yards of fabric for this simple border. And, of course, I needed extra fabric for the quilt back. But other than that, everything you see here came in the box. I’ve even got enough of black leftover for the binding. And here’s the strangest thing: that box is still chock full of fabric.