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Blue Coin - A "Free" Leaders and Enders Quilt

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I enjoyed my finished  Blue Four Patch quilt so much that I wanted to start another leaders-and-enders quilt immediately after finishing it.  My blue scrap drawer was still overflowing (and to be honest, probably will be forever because it's my favorite color) so I knew the next project would feature blue as well.  I decided to pair the blue scraps with my also overflowing white scrap drawer to create a coin quilt.  A coin quilt is something that has been on my quilty bucket list for a long time, but felt kind of boring to make as my "featured project", which means it was perfect for some background sewing! For me, a scrappy quilt works better if there are a couple of rules when I'm piecing it together.  Because I wanted something that I could finish in less than seven years, I needed more lax rules that I had in my previous leaders-and-enders quilt so I settled on four: Only use blues that read as blue - avoid...