Thursday, March 11, 2021

Blue and Green Scrap Quilt

I've gone and done it....yep, I finally made myself a quilt! And boy is she a beauty! I dug through every scrap bin and left over block bin that I could find in my sewing room and pulled out these blue, green, and gray fabrics. The top picture is actually upside down. I started with the olive green block in the bottom right with the square in a square block inside it. Then I made a medium blue block and a navy block and a gray blue block.  I then decided to spread out the square in a square blocks around the quilt so I put those up on the design wall and designed around them.

I added the gray pieced because I felt like the quilt needed a spot to rest your eyes. And I wanted to use the gray and white square in a square. I then realized that the blocks around it couldn't' be just one color. It looked to blocky with those straight lines. So I let the colors flow into the next block. I placed the white with green fabrics and the lighter blue fabrics next to the gray to blend the sections. Piecing got real slow at that point, because I was designing every thing on the design wall one piece of fabric at a time.

The colors are truest in the ones on the cement in full sun, but I wanted a full face shot too. For some reason the lighting was just not working and I couldn't even edit it to get the colors that I wanted. But here she is so you can see the actual layout of it. The pictures don't do it justice - it's gorgeous with all those blues and greens!


 And she's all mine! Linking with My Quilt Infatuation

8 comments:

  1. Such a clever and stunning quilt!

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  2. Love this quilt! So interesting to look at.

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  3. This is so beautiful! A very traditional block-but not traditional at all. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  4. What a fun way to use all your scraps!

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  5. Very handsome. Love how this turned out.

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  6. Enjoy your lovely new quilt, Shannon!!

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  7. I'm glad you're keeping this beautiful quilt!

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  8. This is amazing. I love it. 💙💚🤍

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