This month the Island Batik Ambassadors were challenged to make anything we wanted! I have an overflowing scrap bin which made me decide on a scrap quilt. Oddly enough even after this project I still have an overflowing scrap bin. It seems to be a constant problem!
I started the journey of this quilt when I fell in love with this pattern by Kaye England. It's called Amber Waves of Grain. It has these cute teeny tiny stars in it and I love the block. However, upon further examination I realized that I couldn't cut those teeny tiny stars with my Accuquilt GO! and I really didn't want to cut them by hand. So I decided on a simple square instead of a star. Every single piece is 1 1/2" wide by some length. It was a lot of cutting and would never have been made without my Accuquilt GO!
Some of the blocks I was able to construct as a whole (here they are) and others were partials. This lead to a real challenge because I had to lay it out one row at a time as I was stitching. This lead to it being on the cutting table for a while! But it also encouraged me to get it done so I could get it off the cutting table! I of course sewed it with my favorite Aurifil thread and Schmetz Microtex needles.
Here are the first few rows put together. It's a large quilt!
Ta da! All done. This is one HEAVY quilt with all the seam allowances in there. Each strip is only 1" wide finished so there is a lot of seam allowance. But I love how it turned out and my Oliso iron helped get it really flat! It's so cheerful. My husband says it looks like a candy shop. I'll take that as a complement. I didn't want to work this behemoth under my sit down longarm, so I had my mom quilt it using our favorite Hobbs 80/20 cotton/poly batting.
I hope you get to quilt today!
Suzy
