The "inspiration," such as it was, was an attempt to clear out some space in my drawers of blues and purples. Anything scrappy that was longish and narrowish got cut into two-inch strips. I sewed those strips together pretty randomly end-to-end to good a big heap of 100" strips. Here they are hanging on a bamboo pole in the quilt room.
Once I had enough strips, I just laid them out in the hall, making sure that no two pieces of the same fabric were too close to each other, and that none of the join seams in the strips lined up too closely.
After that, it was just a matter of sewing the thing together. It's backed with three pieces of cheap blue and grey flannel sewn together, and batted with a scrap bedspread I found for a pittance at a thrift store. The quilting just follows the vertical grain, with two lines about 1/4 inch from the edge of each strip. It is heavy, and cozy, and is probably the best-looking quilt per hour of time invested I've ever made.
5 comments:
I really like this one. I have been contemplating a similar one with all of the strips that never seem to get used in other projects.
Cool - You balanced the lights nicely. This looks like it could have been made using a "Jelly Roll."
Mm, the colours here make me think of a storm brewing over the sea.
I really love the look of this quilt.
great job...thanks for sharing .
I have always wanted to just take a bunch of strips and do something like this as well....scrappy though hadn't thought about 2 colors...
Kathie
I think this is just gorgeous. Perhaps my favorite of your quilts. I think it's so wonderful that such a beautiful thing can be made simply by the desire to clean out the fabric stash.
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