Eat Your Veggies!

I think that will be the title for my new quilt. another paper piecing adventure. i have had Ruth B. McDowell's book..Pieced Vegetables...for some time and decided i needed to use it. she has paper piecing patterns for 20 different vegetables and they are all so cute. some she does in straight and curved lines.

Last night i finished the eggplant. i made 2 of them since they were kind of narrow. i am just using the sizes that she has in the book and if they are small i will make multiples and add them together. this one turned out to be 13x13.  there is a pattern for a rounded eggplant also but i probably won't make that one unless at the end i need another block or 2.

I am putting the appropriate veggie fabric around each block. not sure what will be between the blocks to tie them all together. perhaps a brownish? ... for dirt?    won't have to make that decision for a while. hopefully i will get a vegetable done each evening or so. once again, i am using my hand dyes for the veggies and backgrounds.

Stay tuned for asparagus.