One thing about sewing charity quilts is that you always look for ways to save money - after all, I'm giving the quilts away without financial backing from anyone except my wonderful husband. I'm not selling patterns or fabric lines which seems to be the case for most quilting blog sites. I found this free pattern at Pieces By Polly website. She called it a Modern Christmas Quilt, but since it's not made for Christmas and I used fat quarters, I just changed the name. (Here's a direct link: http://www.piecesbypolly.com/2014/11/simple-christmas-fat-quarter-quilt-free.html?m=1 )
I purchased these fat quarter bundles at JoAnn's and felt they were perfect for this pattern. It's a very simple HST quilt. I think I spent more time arranging the squares than it took to sew them up. I backed it with a turquoise solid and made the binding of turquoise/white gingham. Quilting was done with the walking foot on a diamond grid. It came out about right for a throw-sized quilt. I didn't get any final pictures and I've already delivered it to Golden State Family Services (foster care).
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| Here the squares are on my design wall. I love saying design wall when it really just a flannel-backed table cloth. |
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| All sewn together in the final layout. Note it's not the same as above. |
Very Nice job, love the colors together with the modern design.
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