Beautiful old fashioned look with a modern feel! |
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 |
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 |
6 comments:
I know exactly what you mean about working with scraps being time consuming, and then loving the quilt and not wanting to give it away. But someone will love it just as much as you do and it will bring great happiness and comfort to their life. That's what I tell myself!
Hi Ellen
As you progressed through the stages I began to love crumby kisses more and more. It is very difficult to give one of your beloved creations away.
Love sis
Ellen entiendo tu amor por este edredón
es muy bonito
¡¡harás otro rápido seguro!!
It IS a beauty, and yes! Improv piecing all those scraps IS time consuming!
Such a beautiful finish Ellen!
I can see how this will be hard to let go.
Crumby Kisses! I love it. Ok...it's on my crumb quilt list now. I tried some crumby maple leaf blocks a few weeks ago and they didn't do much for me so I was looking around for something else for crumbs. (I wasn't looking very hard but I was looking).
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