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Saturday, February 14, 2015

Dropping In to Share a Finish

Hi! I know that I spent all last year trying, and mostly succeeding at being here more often. Now this year rolls around and the huge curve ball life has thrown me. I did plan ahead in anticipation of this and took a bunch of photos of things so that I could write posts occasionally. Truth is, I find it hard to make myself sit down and do it most days. My commitment to this blog and to you, my dear readers, is to make an effort to say something at least every couple of weeks. Know that I will try. I may not always feel like it. Sometimes I just can't. Okay, enough about that.

I finally finished quilting and binding a small quilt that I made out of a couple of charm packs and some scrap pieces from my Retro Flowers quilt.

I used a couple of charm packs I had sitting around. One was Oh, Deer. The other I can't recall, but I started with a simple patchwork idea.

 Then, I took the scraps from the Drunkard's path blocks from my Retro Flowers quilt and stitched the curved edge together, turned and pressed.  I pinned them into the corners in an alternating design and stitched the blocks together.
So it appears that each block has a small pocket in one of the corners. It's different. I like it. But is it just a quilt? Is it art? I don't know. It defies classification.
 For the back I found a big stack of 10 inch blocks from a swap and I pieced them together.

For such a scrap happy quilt, I took a bunch of binding scraps that I of course, had saved, and stitched them all together. I love the look. My daughter says that with all those tine pockets, this quilt could never live at her house. She can only imagine the crumbs and other things the boys would put in there. Have a great weekend. This is one of my Quarter 1 finishes for Adrienne of On the Windy Side 2015 FAL. Linking up and here is the original list.

9 comments:

Mary said...

Charlotte, this is adorable. I love how you did the corners.

Scrappy quilter said...

I too love how you did the corners. Wonderful little quilt.

Jeanie said...

I call it "darling", whatever it is!

Outback Crafter - Debra said...

That is lovely, bright & colourful. The little pockets could hold many.... many... things. Love the backing.

StitchinByTheLake said...

Very cute! I love the pockets. :) blessings, marlene

Carol Swift said...

I love the pockets and think it would be fun to tuck some sweet notes in there or mini candy bars. I have chocolate on the brain today, so I think that would be the best thing in those cute pockets!

Michele said...

Don't worry about us if you aren't up to writing a blog post. We'll still be here. The quilt idea is a fun one and it turned out cute.

Adrianne @ On the Windy Side said...

This is lovely - what a great way to use up your scraps.

Gemini Jen NZ said...

Another great job - super use of scraps!