This month my One Monthly Goal is to put the top, bottom, and side sashings on Growing Up Odd picnic quilt.
This quilt has 1,552 little two inch squares. Cut over a period of 3 years. They finish at 1.5" The sashing is a vanilla ice cream colored grunge. I wish I could find a name for the fabric but there is only a number.The original pattern is from Wedding Dress Blues and was set 5x5 and was 90" x 90". Mine is 4x4 and 71"x71".
A bonus will be to get the backing pieced. I’m using a pair of used navy blue twill curtains! Because it’s to be a picnic quilt or throw on the ground to sit on quilt, I wanted a dark color no nonsense sturdy backing. And I had the curtains! Wish me luck!
I’m linking up with Patty at Elm Street Quilts today. Patty has gone into partnership with Anne-Marie, who blogs at Stories from the Sewing Room. So you can link up at either blog and your post will show up both places. Thanks to Anne-Marie for jumping in to help out!
Beautiful! I made a postage stamp quilt with the same size squares last month and it's such a fun size to work with (and I hear you with wishing the Grunge fabric had the name on the selvedge!).
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ReplyDeleteGorgeous quilt and I like your idea of using curtains for the backing. I hope it turns out exactly the way you want...it will be a nice picnic quilt.
ReplyDeleteoh I love this one!! all that amazing scrappy goodness!!! Go yoU!!!
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