Wednesday, February 20, 2013

A scrappy finish

As I think about my WIP that I have going, I am happy to say that I have finished a quilt that will be given to a friend in the near future...whenever she has her baby shower.  It's a girl! And I had all these great scraps left over from my niece's string quilt (here) that I wanted to use up.  It's a perfect fit.

Made with scraps left over from a string quilt

I just cut 3" squares of white and then sewed the little triangles I had left over to opposite corners of the square.  I used the same fabric for each square, but definitely could have just gone totally scrappy and used different fabrics everywhere.  Originally I wanted to do different colors radiating out of the center, but I didn't have enough of the same colors to do that, so I went this route, and I like it.

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I know that my friend will love it for her new baby that is due in June...just before I leave.

Which reminds me, I have to make one more quilt for my second niece, Taylor, before I leave.  I have the materials cut out (some of them) and will start piecing soon. I am using the Kaleidoscope QAL pattern from don'tcallmebetsy.  Pics to come when I'm through.

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 I'm linking up today to see what others are up to.
 crazymomquilts.blogspot.com

 WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced

6 comments:

  1. What a wonderful scrappy quilt. Really nice work.

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  2. This looks great. What a wonderful scrappy finish.

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  3. What a lovely scrappy quilt. How big did it turn out?

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  4. This reminds me of those optical illusions that look like they're constantly shifting! Very cool!

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  5. Great use of small squares and some colorful triangles...darn it I should have kept those triangles from other projects in the past:( Now I have to! lol

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