Yesterday I finished this perfectly imperfect scrappy picnic quilt and it is just as I like it!!
The story about this quilt starts in 2014 when I started making 1½" strips from older fabrics and then I used them to make 16 patches. I did a blog post November 7, 2014 of how I made them using the tutorial from red pepper quilts. The blog post is
here
I did not have a plan for them I was just going to keep making them and maybe make another postage stamp quilt.
In March 2015 I researched mile a minute blocks and started making some of them. I called them made up blocks!
May 24, 2015 on IG I posted about a Weekend Challenge by studiojujuquilts to do something with fabric scraps. THAT is when I decided to combine my 16 patches and madeup blocks into a quilt!!
I started making 8½" blocks from my 4½" blocks. Ar the time I was calling it a scrap quilt. The photo is above.
After I got all the blocks sewn together I started calling it a picnic quilt and I did a blog post on June 24, 2015. The blog post has a photo tute about my made up blocks, the backs of the 16 patch blocks to show how I presssed them, and a photo of the finished top ready to be quilted. That blog post is
here
I used this quilt to practice FMQ. First I did the #4 stitch along each of the block seams all over and then and I used all different FMQ designs. In May this year Vicky of Vicky's Crafts & Quilting posted about a FMQ pattern squiggles and wiggles. I had to try it and it was fun!! I took a close up of that pattern I stitched in May.
Here are more photos I took yesterday after I finished the quilt.
The last photo shows where I stitched picnic quilt and my name. The last two photos also show the hand quilting, which I did around all of the outside and scattered in places. I used this as a project to work on when I met with my Tuesday quilting group. I made a scrappy binding using some of the same fabrics I had in the quilt.
As I was doing research for this blog post from my photos, blog posts, IG and my daily log of creative projects, I was surprised how long ago this was started. It was soooo fun to go back and review all of this for this blog post. 😍
I am linking to finish it up Friday and Linky Tuesday.
Smiles and hugs....Caryl
