"Keep The Home Fires Burning" by me. and Miscalulation 1

This is a pattern from McCalls quilting magazine from Jan/Feb 2023.  I love looking at quilt magazines, but don't usually make the design.  This one just spoke to me.   Since I'm famous for my lack of math skills (along with my lack of sense of direction), I way over cut fabrics for this quilt, and made a second quilt out of it's leftovers.   Although that quilt is finished and ready for donating, I've lost it's photos.  Time to find those and get them up here too

This quilt was a stash buster in that everything came from my stash, including the pieced backing and the pieced batting.  We all end up with small bits of batting, and I store mine for future use.  This quilt probably has about 6-7 different pieces of cotton batting in it.  Finally made a dent in that pile at least!
Even a scrappy binding from leftovers of those that were already made.

The second quilt here is called "Miscalculation #1"  I have decided to have a new category of quilts for when I cut incorrectly, and have all those leftover not quite orphan blocks, but enough scraps to make a quilt.   The red strips or the off cuts from the heart block in the original, and the rest is where I simply can't count correctly, or read the pattern correctly.  Regardless, I had a good time putting it together and then quilting it with lots of different quilting designs as a chance to play.