Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Adding Up Nicely


Another finished quilt for this month!  This pattern is called Adding Up Nicely and while I didn't get the pattern from the original designer, I got my inspiration from here.  Her's was a baby size and it looks like her blocks were smaller than mine.


My blocks finish at 6 inches.  Seemed like a good number for making the blue and cream blocks. Can you find the blocks in this quilt?  Well, if you're looking below - that's cheating!



These 2 blocks added with the orange and green squares make up this fast to sew quilt.  Let me say up front that I love this quilt!  But I didn't like that blue and orange flower print you see up there.  I told you I was going to try to use my unloved fabric in a more modern quilt and I think I have done just that!  So I am 3 for 3 on turning something not so pretty into something beautiful!


And I used the rest of the cream fabric on the back of the quilt, so it is no more!

Linking up with Kelly at My Quilt Infatuation

5 comments:

  1. Great way to use up unloved fabric, the small print isn't at all noticeable when you look at the whole quilt.

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  2. I like your quilt a lot! Thanks so much for posting the blocks themselves. I'd never have seen them. This is a great pattern to feature large prints in the squares.

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  3. What a great finish. I think my favorite part is the light dots along the binding.

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  4. It really does add up nicely!!! The orange adds a pop of color. And you know in this weather (grey, snowy,dreary, stormy, slushy...) we can all use a pop to brighten our spirits.
    May I copy your quilt idea???

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  5. It's great that you challenged yourself to use those unloved fabrics. The quilt is lovely!

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