Imagine, a scrap quilt post on Scrap Happy day! I’ll admit to having been scrap delinquent lately. This top was completed a couple years ago at the guild’s fall retreat. Then it went to the black hole called “to be quilted.” Thanks to the guild quilt show needing more quilts this year, it is now quilted and bound.
45 x 45 inches
Deanna of Weddingddressblue started the quilt-along back then. Designed as a relaxed pace, leader/ender project, it is still ongoing, in case you are interested. She gave directions for 1 1/2-, 2-, 2 1/2-inch squares. I had 3 1/2-inch strips left over from Urban Chickens. (I had cut a 3 1/2-inch strip from each solid I owned and selected from the strips four squares for each Urban Chicken block. That left a lot over for a rainy day.) So I calculated the star pieces to go with the alternating 25-square block. Luckily I had 5 strips long enough to make the stars–seaming two to get the 6 1/2-inch star center. While I know where the solids came from, I have no idea what the original project was for the background pieces, bona fida scraps, they.
Even the back is made mostly from left-overs. When making the back for Weather Watching, I needed more than one width of fabric of each color. I just sewed two full strips instead of dealing with exact measurement. I’d thought it would make the complete back for this one, but not quite. So I added the beige.
The back has more of the look of using up the left overs than I like. It isn’t as logical a mate for this top as it was for Weather Watching. I realized too late that I could have cut the strips in half and reversed one and gotten more of a designed look. But I wasn’t distressed enough to rip and resew.
Even the binding is a left over from the group quilt, What If? This is as close to wholly scrap quilt as I have ever gotten.
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ETA I have another Irish Star quilt in the works as a leader/ender project. I don’t remembr what size I am aiming for, but I do remember I need 17 star blocks. I entered this one into the “modern” category for the local quilt show. Even though it is a modification of a traditional pattern, the large sized squares and the bright colored solid fabric spoke “modern” to me. And the show committee did not change it.
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That’s a beauty, gorgeous vibrant colours!
Lovely finish!
What a beauty! So glad you were able to rescue it from the black hole for Scrap Happy Day!
Oh Scrap – that is some lovely scrapiness! I like how the back is pieced too with scraps/leftovers. Great recycling 🙂
Oh, nice! You finished yours first! It looks great. Congratulations!
It is lovely, I would never have guessed it was made from scraps.
Your scrap quilt is very pretty. Good use of leftovers!
Lovely quilt finish and the colours are so cheery.
I like the look, but scrappy makes me happy. And there is noting to apologize for in that back. The solids work well. Thank you for sharing.
The back looks very “Modern”.
Glad you’re finishing UFOs. I’ve been in that mode too. Must be spring cleaning time.