Her scrap bag contained a lot of leftover rectangles from her quilts, so I decided to make another Continuous strip quilt, only this time pieced from bricks. I cut from the scrap bag, then decided it needed a blender fabric; all of these were monochromatic, tone on tone prints.
And that led me to cut up this cotton blouse that I made ten years ago and have probably worn six times. It was the perfect blender.
For the finished dimension I wanted, 33" x 34", I needed 14 yards of continuous strip.
Once the strip is pieced, I folded it in half RST and sewed down the entire length, cut it open and pressed it. I repeated those steps and watched the top grow, 2 rows, 4 rows, 8 rows, 16...
At 16 rows the length became the width and the piecing went from vertical to horizontal.
I *love* it! So fun, so easy; such a complete departure from my usual color palette. Originally I was going to add a border to make it bigger, but I auditioned six fabrics and they all toned it down too much; I didn't want to tone it down.
The machine quilting turned out pretty even too and I finished it with a pieced binding. Nice and bright... for the New Year!
5 comments:
I like it, Leslie! Very fresh and cheerful.
I'm thinking about that technique for a quilt I've been imagining . . . but I would need to keep the stripes vertical, and get a few diagonals in there . . . hmmm . . .
Great scrap quilt and with the use of the blouse as a cutter, a great recycle/reuse project (ala Quiltville's Bonnie Hunter) too!
I saw this type of quilt on Finn's Pieces From My Scrapbag blog and always wanted to do one. Maybe this year?
I am so glad you gave the method in words!!! A very cheerful quilt!!! Love it!!
I love it when you show these quilts!!!! And this one is really nice and bright and happy!! Perfect for the dark days of January!! And the summer too!!! Great Job!!
Its lovely! I've made a few of them but muted colours, completely different!
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