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Two Hour Quilt Possibilities

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A few years ago I purchased a quilting book that I just had to have. I learned the authors techniques for stacking layer upon layer of fabric squares. Then slicing it and resewing the strips together. I made a bunch of table runners this way.  On this stack I started with five fat quarters, cut random slices because I was just learning about the technique.  Then you shuffle the rows.  Once sewn together into blocks, they are squared off and there you have a fast quilt!  For this quilt I decided on linear path and so it was quilted that way.   I chose to make the back side modern, as I was just learning about that too! It was later donated to the local gift basket for new moms.  Since then, I've become more courageous about messing up and have sliced a second time and resewn strips a second time.  Its on the table again with another simple table runner. You can see I've made more than a fe...