Saturday, April 14, 2012

Early April Finish

Typically I sneak in in the last few days of the month, but today I have an early April finish:
This is (finally) for my little niece Storm who at 27 months is due to move out of the cot into her big girl's bed! I am almost ashamed to admit that is is made from the leftovers of my pinwheel table cloth I finished in January. It had all started out as a Moda Jelly Roll, you know the ones that look like a humongous lollipop? I just had to have that :-) The pinwheels were cut at 60 deg angles out of pieced jelly roll strips, and there were heaps of leftovers after. I pieced the leftover triangles into rectangles, put them into a tessellating pattern with white blocks added in (that's the ones with the appliques hearts and flowers). They again formed pinwheels! I added border after border (still using the leftovers!) to bring it up to a single size and appliqued her name on. The batting is polyester, I had forgotten how slippery that can be! I have put a post on my own blog and will include some more photos soon, too, so come over and have a look how it all came together.
Closer up of the quilting - I had forgotten how much loft polyester batting can have!

The quilting was inspired by Christina on A Few Scraps - to me it feels like some of the beautiful  little weeds that creep up fences


Probably my quickest finish to date, it took 13 days from start to finish - so why post it here? The bag with leftovers had been in my WIPs / UFOs for yonks, and the quilt I had started for Storm last year has turned into my own (still not finished) QD9. Regardless, I love all you gals company in getting through my UFOs!!!!

xo Monika

10 comments:

Marjorie's Busy Corner said...

yay!! it turned out wonderful

sunny said...

Fantastic! You make beautiful things from leftover scraps.

Susan said...

Excellent use of leftovers! I am sure Storm will be very cosy snuggling under it!

Wendyb said...

Gorgeous....and what a clever use of your scraps! Go girl!
sew many hugs
Wendy :O) xo

Robin (RsIslandCrafts) said...

Great use of scraps! I like how you made the borders and I think having your niece's name at the top is fun.

Maria said...

You made a beautiful quilt out of your scraps. Lucky niece...

Quilting Chemist (Danette) said...

Turned out beautifully! Great use of scraps!

Cheryl said...

So wonderful..and from leftovers!! What a great quilt and great finish!

Cheryl said...

So wonderful..and from leftovers!! What a great quilt and great finish!

Chris H said...

Wow you work fast! It's a gorgeous quilt too!