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Remember about a year ago when I was cutting up those Hawaiian scraps to make a quilt?  

 This was back in San Juan Capistrano.

 Here's the pile of rectangles ready to do something with, 

(but what?).

I started working on it again recently. An hour here, an hour there and voila! A finished quilt. It's wild and bright, but I love it.

Now I'm in Springville and laying them out on the floor to see what is going to work. I finally decided on how I wanted to put them together and got the quilt top pieced.

On the island in my kitchen, I laid out the backing and the batting and clamped it taut with some clamps I borrowed from Ken's workshop. 

Then I put safety pins in each bloc. When it is all pined in the center, I shift the rest of the quilt over and pin the rest of it. I leave the pins open until I have them all in and then when I take it off the table, I close the pins. This holds all three layers in place while I quilt it.

Here's a close up of the pins in each block.

I was able to machine quilt in on my home sewing machine. It's a bit like wrestling an alligator, but I managed. I ended up doing a "meandering" stitch.