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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!

20 comments:

Libby in TN said...

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

Katy Sweigart said...

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

Sara said...

A great use of scraps!

Julie said...

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

straythreads said...

Love the scrappiness and all the dots in the prints

Sandra said...

Beautiful! What size are the rectangles?

Churn Dash said...

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

Helen

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

Beautiful quilt!

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

How wide are the rectangles?

Anonymous said...

Beautiful! What size was your rectangle?

Anonymous said...

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

Sandra said...

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

Anonymous said...

I would love to know the width of your rectangles.

Tammy Smith said...

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

Ramona said...

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

Angie Steele said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

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