Finished Scrappiness

I have this big plastic jug that originally held big pretzels.

It's the Costco size pretzel jug.

At one point I started putting 2 1/2" squares in this jug

and at the beginning of the isolation it was full.

It was time to do something with these squares.

I had no idea where this quilt would go,

but I started sewing them into 16 patch blocks.

It was fun...put a 16 patch block together and sew.

Do another and sew.

It was the mindless sewing I needed at the beginning

of this isolation time.

I had made a bunch of the blocks and decided it was time to 

move them to the next step.

Onto the design wall they went.

At first I was going to use just white 2 1/2" strips for sashing,

but then this idea came to me to use 9 patch cornerstones

and rows of 2 1/2" squares in between white strips.

(This way I would use up more 2 1/2" squares!)

The top was coming together!

I figured the border would be a solid piece of fabric

and call it done.

However, the 2 1/2" squares said "Not so fast!"

I made more nine patches and sewed those together

to make the borders.

The top was completed.

Then it languished.

Finally, last week I pulled it out to quilt.

Grid quilting was the final decision.

Here is the finished quilt.

I am not one to design my own quilts, for the most part,

but it was fun to see where this one would lead.

 

 There are so many fun fabrics in these blocks.

For the binding,

I pulled out my binding scrap box and used

some darker red pieces.

 

My sewing machine was giving me fits while I was quilting it,

but I finally got it finished.

 

I may have to start filling that jug again!

 

Isn't this backing fabric awesome?!?

I was going to piece a backing from scraps,

but that is my least favorite part of quilting.

Wide backing it is!

This quilt is going to a special couple.

Hopefully it will be delivered this week.

Happy Quilting!