Posting this to record the fact that I did it--decided that I would use up lots of the pieces of cloth acquired either as gifts or in thrift store fabric grab bags (whooooo are those hard to resist) in colors that aren't quite my style. My brain's go-to "use up lots of cloth bits" strategy is always patchwork blanket tops, but my brain also always balks at putting lots of time and effort into figuring out what to do with things it doesn't like so much (see also: a large part of why I still haven't made a slipcover for our unpleasantly brown hand-me-down couch...the other part of why I haven't done that is that it's a sectional and I don't have any one fabric in enough quantity to cover it...and I don't wanna make a patchwork slipcover because, as adorable as they can be, it still loops back around to that "too much time and effort for something fundamentally unliked." Circular thinking, whee!)
Anyway, so, here
It's 71" x 73", and I thought starting with that rectangular piece would end up with a much more aggressively rectangular shape.
The wheat print border does go around the entire thing, it's just flopped over the back of the (ugh) couch in this picture because...effort. (The weather is cold and dark and wet, so no pictures of it on the lawn like other patchwork blanket tops.)
No idea what I'm going to do wit his, besides fold it and add it to the stack of other finished patchwork blanket tops and cloth selections for potential patchwork blanket tops. But, hey, it's something not doll clothes!
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