This week I have been taking advantage of the warmer temperatures, longer daylight hours and Dear Hubby being a 12 hour flight away to set my alarm early and do some pre-dawn creating! This morning has been particularly satisfying as I’ve finally made and machine stitched the binding to a quilt I’ve been working on for over 18 months! The patchwork was a quick pattern started at a fun workshop but I ‘chickened out’ of machine quilting and went down the hand quilting route…
Having stitched the binding in place my attention turned to the fabric left over from this project. I’d been quite generous with the excess backing allowance when I’d put the quilt sandwich together so there were broad strips of that fabric as well as about a ¼m of unused yardage (if I can mix my measurements!). Alongside that was ¾m of the same fabric design in a different colourway. Surely enough to make a child’s quilt?
I found a pattern from Connie Ewbank’s book ‘Quick & Easy Quilts for Kids’ that uses a yard each of two fabrics and decided to take a chance with the amount of fabric I had available – after all a metre is longer than a yard… and I could always make 16 blocks rather than the 20 in the book… Amazingly, I had just enough fabric to cut the pieces for all twenty of the blocks!
The last few 9½” strips of the purple fabric had to be cut from little pieces sewn together! So there it is, the leftover fabric didn’t make it to my stash but only as far as the cutting mat where it was quickly turned into my latest work in progress!
Linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced for Work In Progress Wednesday.
Allison
That’s so great when things work out !
The pattern is really quick too – I’ve made all twenty blocks and got them sewn together! That’s lightening speed for me!