Quarantine Cut
Another year of 100 Days 100 Blocks is in the book! This year's entry was a big, beautiful pair of scissors (affiliate link). I've labeled this as a QAL, but this time around I made it on my own schedule. I needed a project to get myself out of my early-pandemic sewing rut and, with a little encouragement from Angie, I decided to go ahead and just get started before the official event start.
My version is 100% scrappy. I have an overall background fabric that was leftover from another quilt project and that was mixed in with low volume scraps. I was very liberal with the pattern, changing measurements to fussy cut scraps (I highly recommend this ruler (affiliate link) for super easy fussy cutting!) I wanted to include and moving blocks around to better suit myself. The only thing I respected was the actual imprint of the scissors! When I was done with the blocks, I added a one inch border to use up the rest of my background fabric, including sneaking in a few low volume scraps that escaped being part of the actual quilt top.
In keeping with the pandemic/quarantine theme of the quilt, I took my final pictures in my yard (with the snow that came two months earlier than it normally does). The second one is outside the window of my sewing room! All the items in the first photo are things that were heavily used outside during the summer. Every time I looked out the window while I was sewing, the kids were doing something new and fun with the cones. The bike rides kept us sane - sometimes we went as a family and sometimes my husband and I snuck off to do a quick nine miles on our own while the xBox babysat the boys (they never complained about this!). The entire quilt is graffiti quilted in coordinating thread colors.
The back is the only part of the quilt that I splurged on. I knew I wanted to use the rulers and the big numbers, two pieces of fabric I've had forever, but when I unfolded them there wasn't enough to back an entire quilt with. So I ended up buying this fun print from the DIY collection by Amy van Luijk for Figo Fabrics to be the majority of the back. I also bought the binding, using a print from Tula Pink's True Colors collection to tie the whole thing together. The rainbow hexies on the teal background match the feel of the quilt perfectly!
You can see my previous makes from this annual sew-along below:
2017 - Animal City Sampler
I'm sharing this as my favorite finish for October over at Meadow Mist Designs!
My version is 100% scrappy. I have an overall background fabric that was leftover from another quilt project and that was mixed in with low volume scraps. I was very liberal with the pattern, changing measurements to fussy cut scraps (I highly recommend this ruler (affiliate link) for super easy fussy cutting!) I wanted to include and moving blocks around to better suit myself. The only thing I respected was the actual imprint of the scissors! When I was done with the blocks, I added a one inch border to use up the rest of my background fabric, including sneaking in a few low volume scraps that escaped being part of the actual quilt top.
In keeping with the pandemic/quarantine theme of the quilt, I took my final pictures in my yard (with the snow that came two months earlier than it normally does). The second one is outside the window of my sewing room! All the items in the first photo are things that were heavily used outside during the summer. Every time I looked out the window while I was sewing, the kids were doing something new and fun with the cones. The bike rides kept us sane - sometimes we went as a family and sometimes my husband and I snuck off to do a quick nine miles on our own while the xBox babysat the boys (they never complained about this!). The entire quilt is graffiti quilted in coordinating thread colors.
The back is the only part of the quilt that I splurged on. I knew I wanted to use the rulers and the big numbers, two pieces of fabric I've had forever, but when I unfolded them there wasn't enough to back an entire quilt with. So I ended up buying this fun print from the DIY collection by Amy van Luijk for Figo Fabrics to be the majority of the back. I also bought the binding, using a print from Tula Pink's True Colors collection to tie the whole thing together. The rainbow hexies on the teal background match the feel of the quilt perfectly!
You can see my previous makes from this annual sew-along below:
2017 - Animal City Sampler
2019 - Kinship
2020 - Block Battle Mini
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