September Squares Project
In August, my quilt guild had a local graphic designer come and speak to us about her design process. One of the things that immediately struck me was a personal project that she did charting the clothing she wore over the course of a month. I immediately decided to do a similar thing with my fabric. So in September, I cut out a 1.5" square of every single fabric I used and threw it in a bin. I also cut two pieces that were 1.5"x3.5" to represent the two bindings I sewed on and one piece that was 3.5"x3.5" to represent the back of a quilt that I quilted.
Once the month was over they sat for a little bit until I finally sewed them together into a blob, then added some fun quilting to give it a lot of personality:
The quilting makes a grid through the squares, with swirls at the ends. I used lots of different thread colors in whatever felt right - there's no pattern and I may have used up a few bobbins in the process (as well as buried a ton of ends!). Then I just continued the pattern with white thread to fill in the rest of the space. The binding is a black fabric with colorful swirls - almost exactly the same as my quilting!
The back is another one of those fat quarters that seems like a good idea at the quilt store, but then never gets used because it's too hard to cut up:
Guess I just need to keep making mini quilts to use up all of those! This mini is already hanging up on my mini quilt wall in my sewing room.
Once the month was over they sat for a little bit until I finally sewed them together into a blob, then added some fun quilting to give it a lot of personality:
The quilting makes a grid through the squares, with swirls at the ends. I used lots of different thread colors in whatever felt right - there's no pattern and I may have used up a few bobbins in the process (as well as buried a ton of ends!). Then I just continued the pattern with white thread to fill in the rest of the space. The binding is a black fabric with colorful swirls - almost exactly the same as my quilting!
The back is another one of those fat quarters that seems like a good idea at the quilt store, but then never gets used because it's too hard to cut up:
Guess I just need to keep making mini quilts to use up all of those! This mini is already hanging up on my mini quilt wall in my sewing room.
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