Did you know that the Seattle Modern Quilt Guild
will have a new exhibit early next year? In celebration of the guild turning
five years old, there will be a My MODERN exhibit at Island Quilter from January
2 to February 5, 2015. Previously, I have entered preexisting quilts in the
guild exhibits, but this time, I was inspired to make a brand new quilt
especially for this exhibit.
Scrap Migration came about because the
construction of my Patriotic X and Plus Quilt resulted in a pile of leftover
half-square triangles. I knew I wanted to use alternate grid work and end up
with a quilt 36” square, and the design just evolved from there. Those lonely
half-square triangle blocks became scrappy flying geese set against an
improvisational pieced background.
The top and binding of Scrap Migration are made entirely
of scraps from other quilts, and the back is made from scraps and stash fabric.
Even the batting was leftover from another project. How’s that for using what’s
on hand? In fact, I’m almost completely out of white scraps now. Guess I’ll
just have to start a new quilt!
Linking up to Scraptastic Tuesday at She Can Quilt.
Linking up to Scraptastic Tuesday at She Can Quilt.
I love your little quilt, it will look great in the exhibit. It's also such a lovely use of your scraps, you could join the scrappy link on my blog from Tuesday too if you liked.
ReplyDeleteoh this turned out lovely, Rachel! I like the red against that scrappy background. Very nice.
ReplyDeleteI love the movement this quilt has! A beautiful finish!
ReplyDeleteLove this, especially the polka dots!
ReplyDeleteFabulous use of scraps and it just goes to how what beauty can result from what others would throw away! Thanks for linking up with #scraptastictuesday and sharing it!
ReplyDeleteLove this!!
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