Scrappy Trip Around the World

And what a trip it's been!  It took me one year and two quilt-alongs to finish this quilt - a literal trip around the sun.  I started with Angie at Gnome Angel and finished with Alli at Woodberry Way.

I kept mine on the small size - 16 blocks made entirely from my own scraps.  I thought about adding another row, but liked all the symmetry formed by my 4x4 grid and decided to leave it like this.  Every block has a red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple stripe in a random order, but arranged so that there are purple diamonds in the quilt.  I finished it off with a purple binding.

The owls on the back were originally purchased for my Modern Fans quilt, but I didn't like the purple on the owl tummies for that.  It does, however, match this quilt perfectly, making it a 100% free quilt!  Even more exciting, the grid formed on the front of the quilt let me orange peel (my favorite FMQ motif) without marking anything!

After my thread broke about four times in ten minutes, I realized that my needle needed to be changed and it was smooth sailing from there to the end of the quilt.  This quilt is the perfect lap size for when I'm sitting on the couch and cross-stitching or eating ice cream in front of the TV at night.  I've probably got another good week or so until the kids realize it's done and it gets adopted into their play rotation - currently most of the quilts are part of a giant fort in the playroom.  I'm going to enjoy it as long as I can!