When I made the Quilt for Teacher with Fire Monkey in the spring, the pattern created some cut-off triangles of a good size. I saved them and sewed them together into HSTs knowing I would have enough for a small new project. The teacher quilt had 60 blocks, so I made 4 extra HSTs to give myself 64 and therefore an 8 x 8 layout.
Obviously with HSTs there are a lot of layout options. I decided that a simple peaks & valleys layout would look good. For the quilting I followed the peaks & valleys on both sides.
For the back I used a piece of minky or similar that someone gave me back in Project Linus days. It's fairly small but so is this quilt, so it worked. You can see the back a bit through the white sections of the quilt but I decided that I didn't care. This will be a donation quilt to the local children's hospital and I doubt a kid will be upset that they can see the birdie on the other side.
I conveniently finished this during purple month with Angela at So Scrappy. It's not my regular Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks, but it is made of scraps and it is purple, so, win!
Pretty purple zigzags - love it! And so will a special child!
ReplyDeleteScraps, PURPLE, finish for the trifecta!!!
ReplyDeleteA fun finish and one that does what you needed - both using up the secondary HST and purple for the RC color. Congrats on the finish!
ReplyDeleteA great way to use the 'excess' from the first quilt and have a useful, comforting project.
ReplyDeleteLovely design, and beautiful fabrics!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great way to use up scraps. This will make someone very happy and comforted!
ReplyDeleteWhat does HST mean? Love the purple.
ReplyDeleteNice way to use up those HST!!! It'll make someone a very happy person! and the birds peaking through the white adds interest! In my opinion. I can just envision it ... "oh see the birdie peaking through? where is (s)he on the back ... pure fun! :-)
ReplyDeleteVery pretty quilt. Congrats on using up the left overs.
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