It was inspired by Bonnie Hunter's Triple treat leader-ender challenge. Every year she shares a scrap friendly block pattern and invites followers to sew along with her in creating lots of blocks, using lots of scraps and maybe even making a quilt from them.
These blocks started with four-patches which were then sewn together with larger pieces.
I used 2" squares rather than 1½" as suggested by Bonnie. I found that they were fun blocks to make - it was very satisfying sewing them all up.These blocks started with four-patches which were then sewn together with larger pieces.
I basted the quilt quite soon after finishing the flimsy (which is quite unusual for me) but it had sat waiting for attention ever since.
Until recently. To be honest, I realised that all my basting pins were tied up in quilts and I had none left for anything else!
I chose to quilt it with a basic meander/large stipple. I haven't quilted a big quilt with meandering before but I decided it would be perfect for a scrap quilt. The fact that I wouldn't have to think much, and that it wouldn't take long to clock up the miles also helped!
I got so excited to finish it that I even started sewing the binding on before I had finished quilting it!
Here it is when I'd first finished it; woohoo, loving it! —
And today I took it out into the wild for its official photo shoot —
A pieced backing —I couldn't resist taking this photo in amongst the Loquat tree 😃
I have started another Scrappy Leader-Ender quilt. Not one of Bonnie Hunter's challenges, but one I saw at our Scrub Stitching retreat earlier in the year.
It is Bonnie Lass by Jen Kingwell —
Another easy and addictive leader-ender project that doesn't use up nearly enough scraps!!
'til next time,
Happy stitches,
Happy stitches,
Raewyn
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