This is the third charity quilt I've promised. I've ripped apart five shirts, cut them all into squares and stitched them into a bunch of 9-patches. If you look at the bottom row, you can see these blocks aren't exactly whole. That's because I'm making disappearing 9-patch blocks, and when I ran out of fabric to cut 7" squares I cut 7x3.5" rectangles (or 3.5" squares) instead.
Turns out I had way more blocks than I needed for a throw quilt, but not enough to stretch it to a twin sized quilt. Right now I'm in the process of scrapping together four more cut-apart blocks so that I can do a full 6x8 block layout. There's a ton of smaller scrap, so the plan is to randomly piece that together, then see how much of a border it would make. I'm thinking of filling the rest of the border with a cream fabric, or possibly sash the blocks. Either would be enough to twin-size the whole shebang.
Not really the color scheme I go for, but this has been fun. I'm liking how it looks, the fabric is so soft and I'm sure someone is going to love it.
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I love those colors for a quilt - looks so cozy!
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ReplyDeleteI totally concur - someone is really going to love this. I do, for one! ~smile~ Roseanne
I can definitely see taking a mice nap under this.
ReplyDeleteI'm loving this plaid quilt, Sally. Some lucky person is going to love this quilty hug when finished. I am looking forward to seeing what design you come up with.
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