My two inch scrap Quilt

 

It is time to finally finish this quilt top. I had lots of 2 inch squares cut out from scraps, so I sewed them into 4 patch blocks. Here I am pinning them to a sheet I hung on the wall to lay out the design.

 

 

As you can see I have made a lot of progress and it is coming together nicely.

 

 

I pinned all the 4 patch blocks to the wall leaving an open space between the blocks to work in my design. Each of the blocks consisted of 2 squares of the same fabric, either reds or browns, and the other 2 squares from neutral scraps. I then sewed multiples of that block, enough to complete a row laid on the diagonal.

 

 

Here you can see I started to fill in the blank spaces with blocks I cut 3 ½ inches square. I wanted to give the quilt a lot of movement, so I started with a zig-zag pattern.

 

 

It was really nice to arrange the blocks on a design wall to be able to view the quilt at a distance.

 

 

After I had the design all together on the wall I started to take down a row at a time and sew them together. This step in the process shows the blocks sewn into rows. You can see on the left side of the quilt where I had labeled and numbered each row, so I wouldn’t get them mixed up.

 

 

And here is the quilt with all the rows attached. At this point I still needed to add a border.

 

 

For the border I decided on a pretty brown fabric in a small print. I decided to use more of the 4 patch blocks and incorporate them into the borders on all 4 sides of the quilt. I sewed a half square triangle on the corners of all the blocks in a lighter brown fabric, but not the same fabric I was using in the border strips. I placed them at random without any thought to lining them up with the blocks in the center of the quilt. This pattern already had enough “order” to it.

 

 

Here I have the borders pinned in place and I am attaching them at the machine.

 

 

Wow, I am finally done! This quilt top has 1,834 pieces of fabric in it. The major amount of those pieces being 2 inch squares. I think I will wait until the holidays are over with before I decide to quilt it.