This first quilt is for Jill. On skype, we had been talking about a quilt for her to use as a yoga mat. She suggested neutrals with a little blue and green - no reds or yellows. I have a lot of neutrals, grays and beige. I also had this big piece of light blue, it looks like white here but it is pale blue. I love to make the half square triangles, so this was a fun, fast quilt. Two weeks.
This next quilt is made from selvedge edges. I've been cutting the selvedge from my fabric for years. Each strip is about an inch wide. I had rolled the strips in to balls, and had 4 balls about the size of softballs. I thought I'd have enough for a quilt and maybe a tote bag. Turns out I had just enough for this one small quilt.
The top picture is the stack of blocks, the second is putting the blocks together, then the quilt with a shot of how the back looks. I cut a square of white for the back, then a matching piece of batting. Then I sewed the strips of selvedge one by one onto the batting side. It makes a nice quilted backing along with the pieced, quilted front. Then, of course it had to be squared up. I had a huge piece of fabric, light blue stripe I was able to use to join the blocks. I didn't want to use anything too stark to join the blocks, so this material was perfect. You can see the light blue sashing on the back squares. This quilt used a LOT of thread, and a LOT of time. I probably won't make another one, but maybe a tote bag someday will be fun.
2 comments:
Oh, now I see what you mean! Those are very nice :)
Love my quilt!
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