I started this quilt sometime in 2017. I had started this quilt with a destination for it in mind, but my unexpected hiatus made it never to be. I also had the intention with this quilt to do some stash busting. I grouped all the strip scraps of like sizes I had and sewed them into rows and then joined the long rows. I really like the way this combines all the different fabric, making it a treasure hunt of looking all all the varied patterns and colors. Many of the scraps are vintage, extremely old, or reclaimed fabrics.
For the backing I used a single piece of a vintage sheet. This is just the kind of sheet I like to keep and use on our beds, but it was only a twin size. I loved the pattern so much, and the vintage feeling of the fabric, I couldn’t pass it up at whatever thrift shop or rummage sale it was found. I like that such a busy fronted quilt has a single backing fabric.
I can’t remember what batting was used for this quilt, but the binding was made by folding over the backing. This is my favorite way to bind a quilt and what I most often use. This is a baby sized quilt and as with all my quilts is an irregular shape. It measures approximately 40 1/2” by 41 1/2”. The folded binding helps make this quilt have wobbly edges, which I always enjoy. I quilted this with intersecting freehand fans, which as also one of my go-tos.
I labeled this quilt with our newest acquired fabric, that was given to us by a friend. It’s a goal of mine not to buy new fabric before using a lot of what we already have. We have so much fabric and so much of it is amazing. Even when we aren’t seeking out new fabric, it finds us, somehow.
When I started playing with sewing again, piecing scraps here and there, I knew this was the quilt I wanted to finish first. Bc it had seen the end of my quilting, before several years off, I wanted it to be the return as well. There’s nothing so satisfying as a finish but when you are finishing an old quilt, sometimes you are not as in love with it was you once had been. This was not so for this little baby quilt. I might like this one more than I did as I was working on it over three years ago.
I’m so excited to get back to quilting and get back to linking up with Slow Sunday Stitching over at Kathy Quilts, one of my all time favorite quilt blogs.
What are your go to quilt patterns for stash or scrap busting?