Creating a scrap quilt allows me to combine a variety of fabrics in a cohesive way. Keeping a simple design makes it easy to sew and quilt. More importantly, it can build your confidence as you start playing with your scraps. Postage checkerboard scrappy boy quilt is a wonderful way to use scraps quickly.
Look for a tutorial coming in August 2018.
This was a quilt I started over Memorial Day weekend in my raceday create-a-thon. My scraps are two inch squares. To piece the postage stamp blocks, I went to my random pulling method.
For each block I tried to avoid same color combinations. The random method does help with that. This isn’t for every quilter, but can be a fun exercise. You should try it some time.
Kona Ash is the gray surrounding the smaller blocks. They are also two inches. I had envisioned quilting with an orange peel design, much like this quilt. Instead I went with a quick free motion quilting. Looking at the finished quilt, the blocks stand out more than the quilting.
The quilting hides in the blocks and sashing. Look at how the colors are balanced and framed in gray. While pulling fabrics I found these two fabrics for the backing.
I had just enough to make the backing. Same goes for the yellow binding. I love how it sometimes just works out. This quilt is heading to meet it’s new owner, Henry. He was born a few weeks early and it currently doing well.
This is baby quilt 11/40 for the yearlong goal.