Crumby Kisses is Finished

Beautiful old fashioned look with a modern feel!

I am really torn about this little quilt. When I first started working on it I was sure that I was going to keep it so I decided to name it. As I was working on it I changed my mind and I decided that I would give it to charity through my Guild's outreach program. At that point, I made the decision to make it a smaller size than my normal huge bed quilt. Now, I am regretting that decision because I really like how this one turned out!

I should have known better because I really do love scrappy, crumby, string quilts and this one fits that bill perfectly. Using up some crumbs to make a quilt is a very frugal way to quilt but it is also very labour intensive and time consuming.

backing and binding

I will continue to make charity quilts but I think for the next little while I will be making simpler and less time consuming patterns and maybe it won't be so hard to give them away. I want to spend some time developing my long arm quilting skills so maybe it will be a win-win situation. We only have so many hours in each lifetime and I guess we have to choose how we want to spend them. :)

As I had posted previously, this quilt was inspired by a pattern from Missouri Star Quilt Co. called Kissing Coins. The pattern used rectangles cut from a precut bundle of fabric. When I saw the photo of their quilt in my friend's magazine I knew I needed to make it with crumbs. They do have a YouTube video tute here.

This quilt finished at approx 49" x 62" and was quilted using a gray Cansew thread #6819 and lead gray magnaglide in the bobbin. I quilted it using the panto called Cool Beans by Apricot Moon Designs and I used Hobbs 80/20 cotton/poly for the batting.

I finished the quilt using a scrappy binding comprised of colours found in the backing fabric. I love it and I hope the person that receives it gets many, many years of comfort and joy whenever they use it.

ready to donate

I am going to miss this quilt a lot so I think I will just have to make me another one - but bigger! Bigger is better...right. :)