Finishes

Saturday, January 5, 2019

Scrappy Finish

The week between Christmas and New Year's
I pin basted four quilts,
preparing them for machine quilting.

Today I am sharing the third finish of the four.

I made this quilt from rectangles I found in a box of
scraps from a quilt I made a number of years ago.
There were a lot more rectangles than I remembered,
so I started randomly placing them on my design wall
and created this top.



This was pure mindless sewing,
which is needed on occasion!

 

The machine quilting was purely mindless, too.
I was listening to a book on Hoopla while I quilted.
No measuring, no counting, so stopping and starting.
Just quilt and move the fabric.

 


It was fun making this quilt from the box of scraps.
The binding is also from my box of binding scraps.
I would not usually put all of these fabrics together,
but it seems to work here.

 

The backing peaking out from the bottom corner
was left over from a larger quilt.
This finish will go in the "to be given" pile.

Happy Quilting!

21 comments:

  1. It may have been mindless sewing, but it yielded a beautiful quilt!

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  2. I love this! It makes me want to dig through my scraps!

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  3. This turned out beautifully! I have some of those fabrics! It will be a wonderful gift for someone. What fun!

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  4. Love the scrappiness and all the dots in the prints

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  5. Beautiful! What size are the rectangles?

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  6. I wish I had such colourful, wonderful scraps. I love it!

    Helen

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  7. I always think that this type of a scrappy quilt is special for somebody in a nursing home because they can have fun looking at all the different fabrics. Sort of an I spy quilt.

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  8. Would you mind telling the size of the blocks..It’s so pretty

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  9. How wide are the rectangles?

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  10. Beautiful! What size was your rectangle?

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  11. I too....Would you mind telling the size of the blocks...

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  12. This looks like what I know as a "Brick Wall" Quilt.......Sandra

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  13. I would love to know the width of your rectangles.

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  14. I too, would love to know the size of your quilt “Bricks”. Before or after sewing!!

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  15. For Tammy and Anonymous… the rectangles were 3x6” unfinished. Thank you for your visits!

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  16. Love this! Great use of all those scraps. I have scraps from when I cut binding. This would be great to do with those scraps.

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    1. So then is the smaller end block 3 by 3? Thank you. It’s gorgeous.

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  17. I do this occasionally and make baby quilts for an organization called Newborns in Need. Always turn out looking great and very useful also ❤️

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  18. It's absolutely beautiful.I am new to quitting and working at one now very similar using 5 inch squares from scraps.

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