Stroke of Midnight, 72 by 80
Machine pieced, machine quilted
For the Bloggers Quilt Festival hosted by Amy of Park City Girl, I'm displaying this bed quilt now owned by a friend (see her monogram in the lower right corner) because it was a quilt that almost didn't happen. I made the crumb blocks out of leftovers from an elementary school project where we made a string quilt together. I intended this to be a donation quilt, but somehow made it too small for their specifications. Then my friend saw it and loved the colours, and I added borders to get it to fit her bed. I love the pumpkin sashing and the random, graphic splashes of royal blue in the blocks. At a recent show, this quilt attracted a lot of attention because it was the only scrap quilt there and other quilters asked me how to make the blocks. So I'm posting this one here because it was a happy accident that celebrates a very tried and true principle of quilting: use what you have! Check out the rest of my blog at scraps and strings.blogspot.com
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24 comments:
and it's a blessing to all when you do....visually stunning quilt that has a wonderful story to go with it! thanks for sharing!
Very eye catching B! Great machine quilting! 8-)
Happy stitchings!
Love crumb blocks.......so relaxing to just sew and not have to match any seams or points :0)
this is great looking.
Happy Sewing
I think the orange & blue are great in this quilt!
This is such a fun quilt!
It is beautiful!
I am from Florida and all I can say is GO Fators. The colors are popular around here and the quilt is fantastic.
Great quilt and good advice for all of us...use what we have!!
That's a great lesson in not throwing fabrics leftovers out!
It turned out great! Love the orange and blue, it makes it sing!
Love, love, love the orange! What a lucky friend!
Thank you for sharing such a neat quilt.
I really like the interesting combination of the colorful, abstract blocks and the traditional sashing and cornerstone setting. Great job!
always love this quilt - you did such a great job. I love the pumpkin too!
Great quilt. Love that you use scraps. I have not heard the term crumb blocks. Is that just using scraps to piece as you like? Thanks for sharing.
I love scrap quilts too and am trying to use up some of my stash right now on some quilts. Blue and orange is such a great combination. I just made a baby quilt in those colors for our newest grandson.
very pretty....i love the colors
Haha - I too submitted my 'pumpkin' quilt for the festival as well (since I did not have that many quilts to show).
great colors! particularly fun for this time of year
Great use of scraps.
Love it, love it.
It's a stroke of genius! You have a lucky friend!
Oh what fun I had prowling around your blog! There is something so organic, captured in your story of this too small to give quilt made larger for a freind's bed, about all that you are doing here....and they are as pretty as they are fun. thank you for your sharing
Fabulous! I love that you have used orange as "neutral"!
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