Thursday, June 27, 2019

Scrappy Four Patch Quilt


That's a lot of tiny squares! When I started quilting, I swore I would never work with anything smaller than 4" squares. Well never say never because I had a ton of 4 inch squares that I purchased - very scrappy. I came across a technique in which you sew squares together, then cut the squares in half forming two joined rectangles. Then you join two more rectangles, cut them in half and form 4-patches. Now as I think about it, I probably did it wrong, but hey, it worked. I tried to combine opposites on the color wheel, making purple/yellow, blue/orange, and red/green. 
Can you see the different
colorways on the diagonal?
Here's a close up.


Close up of the back.
Here's a close up of the quilting.
I just quilted a grid with my walking foot.
And then parallel lines about 1/2 in apart on the border.


The back with the sun shining through.
I like taking pictures in my garden.
This quilt finished about 45"x48".



2 comments:

  1. like the subtle change of color with the busyness of the fabrics, Temecula Quilts has a similar pattern, when I first opened this post I thought that was the pattern you had used. very inventive.

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    1. Thank you again for all your kind words. It's nice to hear positive feedback from people who aren't biased 😉.

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