Getting closer to a finish

And the blocks are  all set together.

It took a lot of late nights to get it to this stage, but I'm very happy with how it's looking.

The next step is a 2" border of pink, and then the same green as the setting triangles around that.  Unfortunately there's no more of the pink, so I will have to find a substitute.  There isn't a lot of that green left either, so it may end up being only 3" wide. The green is from 2006, a line called Calico Craze, so I've only been hoarding this for 14 years. 

I do have a possible replacement fabric in mind, but I don't want to use that unless I absolutely have to.

I was wondering how old that pink was, so I consulted my fabric book and found it right at the start, 2001. I bought it at a discount patchwork shop in Sydney, Patchwork Products, which has sadly now closed.  That shop was like an Aladdin's Cave full of wonders, and all affordable which was a little miracle in those days.  So that piece has sat on the shelf for 19 years; it really is from the archives.

None of the more modern pinks seem to match this, and I had nothing large enough for a border in the old fabrics; a hunt through the scrap drawer found a strip that would do, but I had used it all in other quilts.  A shout-out to Mereth, and she found yardage in her stash drawers.  I'm not surprised, because she uses scraps so much that she doesn't get to cut into the yardage very often.

This one is also 19 years old, it's a better colour match in real life. My phone can't handle vibrant pinks apparently.  In return for the pink I gifted her a neutral beige that she needed for her latest project.  It was so old it predates the fabric books, from last century in fact. Some of my stash is Ancient....

Going through my fabric book was interesting.  So many of the fabrics I am currently using came from 2000-2002, I would never have said they were that old.   I feel even more determined to start using them and not saving them for another 20 years.