Scrappy Quilt – OccasionalPiece

Make this snappy, I thought: no malingering or beating around the bush. You’ve got a birthday deadline.

This is Chris’ quilt, quilt #274 in the Index, it’s roughly 60″ by 72″– tall enough for him. My quilter turned it around in like a New York Minute, and I had it back out the door again a few days later, sending it on to him for his birthday.

I chose Mod Dots for the quilting: nice loop-de-loos around all those sharp angles and edges.

For the backing I used a pre-packaged quilt backing, liking the bursts of color against the sea of blues on the front. There are several airplane fabrics in there as he wants to be a pilot, but other than that, it was a scrap quilt all the way around.

I’ve learned to include a care label on quilts I give away.

This post is a contrast to the last one, showing you I do know how to do a quick quilt and like Mary, I can make it snappy.

Other Posts about this Quilt

Showing the blocks under construction, with the measurements so you, too, can do a snappy quilt full of love (I love working with HSTs and large blocks!)

Since it’s the last Friday of the month, it’s time to post our Friendship Cross-X block swap blocks. Say that one five times really fast. Our Flickr group is *here* and you can grab a quilty pal and start anytime! Above are my four blocks, and no, you’re not seeing double. Well, you are, but it’s supposed to be that way.

Krista, of KristaStitched, is my quilt-swap buddy, and I sent off her blocks and received some in return:

Look how nice they play together. We began to notice some variation creeping into our blocks, and took the time to really study what was going on them.

I did a search on these blocks and found this display (not our blocks). I’ve circled the different blocks; can you see why? It’s the weensy little background triangles. As Krista and I talked we noticed that most of these tiny triangle blocks, or as I refer to them, the backiest-of-the-background triangles, are from the same fabrics. I don’t think others in the Friendship Swap run into this, because all of theirs seem to be controlled colors and hues. But Krista and I decided to go for it, and make ours scrappy, so are discovering things about the block that we hadn’t noticed before.

We now plan to make sure our backgrounds (our backiest-backgrounds) are all the same, and to keep with our two basic rules: 1) add some text somewhere in the block and 2) keep a strong contrast between the X and the + parts. Sometimes the littlest changes can have big impacts.

And here they all are together!

Come back tomorrow, February 1st for the reveal of our second challenge of the Urban series: Structures. There are eight of us doing this Four-In-Art Art quilt challenge (so named for the four challenges we have a year), and I’ll present mine as well as link to the other quilts.