Scrappy Quilt

Scrappy Quilt, a photo by Jane-Ace on Flickr.

  This was just going to be a throw together piece for me to practice free motion quilting, but I wound up using only "stitch in the ditch" stitching, after all. My class instructor had shown me an article about how, even for free motion quilting, it is good to stabilize a quilt with "stitch in the ditch"stitching...so the free motion does not make the quilt wonky. 

Some of the fabric in this came from stash dating back twenty-four years! My daughter saw it and laid claim for her hope chest, since she recognized some of the fabric as having been from outfits I had made for her when she was preschool age. 

Nice that she will treasure it, even though I had to make some of the sashing narrow to get the less-than-accurately stitched blocks into a square for the borders. [See "Salvaged by the Sashing" post for more about that.]The finished size is about 30" square.