A Scrappy Festival Quilt

Hello! While Baby J watches a Sesame Street I'll share with you my entry in the Festival of Scrappiness going on at Stitched in Color.

The beginning of this little quilt came from a stack of left over scraps from some of my prized vintage fabrics. It was a Noah's Ark theme print with cute animals and plants in these really bold colors. Even though there was only a little stack left I knew I wanted to sew them into a quilt for Baby J.

You know when you make a quilt for someone and you're not sure if they will 'take' to it or not. Especially with kids...well this little guy claimed the quilt for his own. I could hardly take pics of it!

I based the 'pattern' on improv piecing and used white for the background. The white were also scraps I had on hand so it was exciting putting the pieces together and letting this quilt build itself. I love the little love birds sitting on the ark, and the elephant which is squashed because it's also pieced from little scraps! Even the binding is pieced from binding scraps!

Here's close up of all the sections and some quilting. Straight lines quilted close together vertically across the body of the quilt but skipping the little windows of color to let them pop. The boarders are simple lines vertical and horizontal so as to create a little lattice in each corner.

I backed the quilt with minky, which makes it hang and feel sooooo snugly! The down side is that red fuzzyness is pulled through the the front. Not a big deal, but lesson learned on that minky note!

All in all I love this little quilt and so does my boy and that's all that matters. Thanks for reading and have a wonderfully scrappy day!

Cheers!
Kelly