Finished Quilt: Favorite Blocks

 I love that sometimes, a quilt comes together so ridiculously fast that it doesn’t feel like any effort at all.  My most recent finish, Favorite Blocks, came together just that quickly.

I pulled all the fabrics for this quilt from my 2.5” scrap box.  Since this month, we are challenged to use teal/turquoise/aqua scraps, I chose all my fabrics from blue to green.  The centers I made from my black and gray scraps.  This scrap box is depleted enough that I’m not sure how many more quilts I can create without cutting from stash. The pattern is adapted from the book Successful Scrap Quilts from Simple Rectangles.  I think this is my fourth quilt from the book.

The backing is a lovely piece of 60” wide fabric I dyed this summer.  While it may look “just turquoise,” it is nicely mottled and has a few dashes of grey, yellow, dark blue, and white.  I was very proud of my backings.  They’ve saved me from a number of tediously pieced backs, as my stash has dwindled to smaller pieces and less significant yardage.

The finished quilt is roughly 56” x 64”.  I don’t have a recipient in mind just yet, so this will wait patiently for the perfect person.

from the room of Zana’s Ninis,

katie z.