Another quilt born of the scraps from the charity quilt making evening! I started putting some of the scrap colours that went together well - a mix of greens, browns and pinks - into blocks. Then I remembered that I had a panel in the same sort of colours that could be used.
The layout wasn't absolutely ideal, but I was in a make do and mend mood, so I made them fit!
The backing was a challenge too! At 48" x 54" it was too wide for a normal width of fabric, but as I didn't have anything in the right sort of colours, I had to put together this backing. It uses two different types of green fabric and a long narrow remnant of pink. It was a bit touch and go, but I had just enough to make it work.
Of course, I hadn't thought about the binding, and I didn't have enough of anything to work properly, so I used another green (which I thought was closer to some of the greens in the central panel than it actually was - oops!).
Still, as a 'make do' quilt with hardly any stash shopping at all, let alone actual shopping, it's turned out well!
Thanks to the generous donations of the RKQ quilters!
Another donation quilt complete. My 10th quilt finish of the year, along with a set of fabric post cards, a couple of fabric buckets, a skirt and some other odd hemming and repairs along the way.
No wonder that my machine is asking for a service!
Sewing will have to slow down a little whilst it is away for a few days.
Really good use of scraps and that panel! MaryAnne scared me with her tale of 34 boxes of fabric - I need to use some stash!!!
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