Final piece of the puzzle

Over in my sidebar is a button for the Jelly Roll Sampler Quilt Along 2010 at Moose on the Porch Quilts blog.  We started on March 1st and made a block every two weeks.  I was always ready to make the next block.  And now suddenly, WHAM!  today the last block was posted.  I was finished with the block before I realized that I was at the end of the quilt along. 
Next up, we will sash and border the quilt top.   Konda said we would make the quilt 58" by 72" but I am thinking I will just make my outside sashing wider and not add the final border.  Thus mine will probably be 48" by 62" which is  a nice lap quilt size, I think.  


Here is that final block for you to see how I did mine.  I plan to do the sashing in heavy muslin with leftover pieces of the jelly roll as cornerstones Although leaving out the cornerstones would eliminate the point matching (which you can see in the picture I don't always succeed in doing.)

Framed Squares

Just so y'all don't think I am goofing off, I will show you what I am working on. I was planning to cut these into quarters and mix them up to make a type of bento box. I did it with about three of the blocks and didn't like the results. My seams weren't matching up like I wanted them to match.
So, having thought already that the "framed squares," as I call them, looked great on their own, I decided to just make up several and make a Framed Square lap quilt.

To make these I just took a 5" charm pack and a Jelly Roll. Actually, I pulled from two charm packs and got a couple of strips from a different Jelly Roll.
I cut two 5 inch strips and two nine inch strips from one jelly roll strip(JRS) Then from a contrasting strip I cut two 9 inch strips and two 13 inch strips. (make sure your strip is long enough - some aren't - I KNOW! Never mind how, I just know!

The set of 5's go on the charm on opposite sides. Press open. Add the same color 9's on the other two sides. Now you have a single framed square.
Take the contrasting color and proceed just like you did the previous strips. (Add the short ones, press then add the longer ones) Bingo you have a framed square.

Here are some of mine.