At the same time that I found the nurse fabric, I found this wonderful Maxine fabric! One panel had enough images to make two lap quilts; I immediately thought of a dear friend who loves Maxine, so I made this small quilt for her.

It’s all made from stash, except of course the Maxine panel. One yard makes enough sashing for all but the center block so I found another piece that would work there.   I usually only buy quarter yards so was lucky to have a yard!

It’s quilted the same way as the nurse quilt shown previously.

While I still had all that fabric out on the cutting table I went ahead and completed the other top for myself, but I will not quilt that one til later. It doesn’t seem as though I made much of a dent in the stash!!

Again, one yard took care of most of the sashing and I had chosen another different black and white for the center, but then remembered just in the nick of time, this “ugly” fabric, one quarter yard, that I got one year ago in an “Ugly Fabric” exchange with a challenge to actually use the fabric sometime during the year. I used all but a few inches of it sashing the center block and for the four edge corner squares. Actually, when I got the fabric, I didn’t really consider it ugly, I like those large scale florals and knew I would find a place for it eventually.

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