Frippery
It's a finish!
62 x 83
Last year I received a box of scraps that included some 4.5 inch shirt squares. After I finished my quilt Scared Shirtless in September of last year I used the leftover solids...
...and sashed some sets of four squares. And then left those blocks at the end of my ironing board until I could decide what to do with them. (Ooops...I see a safety pin. As I quilt on my DSM I mark spots with a safety pin where I need to bury my knots. I guess I missed this one.)
In February of this year I decided to clear off the end of my ironing board and do something with the blocks and I ended up with a flimsy. I first cut more squares from my box of old shirts and made enough blocks for a good sized donation quilt and then basically I kept sashing sets of four blocks until I could sash no more.
After all the squares were sashed then my next set of four blocks was sashed with a wide floral and solid four patches as cornerstones as you see above.
Then four of those blocks got sashed with a skinny solid and a floral cornerstone like the dark blue you see here...
...and the darker brown you see here.
Then finally those blocks were sashed with the skinny floral with solid cornerstones.
Then I backed it with a sheet and quilted it on my DSM with horizontal and vertical lines in light gray thread. I had just enough of that wild floral to use for binding.
19 comments:
What a great quilt using the leftovers, a beautiful charity quilt. Happy stitching!
You amaze me! I love the combination of shirt plaids and floral sashings and different colored solids and widths of sashings! It is just wonderful! When I was looking at the thumbnail pics on Alicia’s links party, I saw the title Flippery. I thought to my self, that has got to be Cathy at Sane, Crazy, Crumby Quiltting!
This is a clever design and would work well to size up a quilt! I like the variety that shirts bring to a quilt.
I really like this one! Very nice Cathy.
The floral is a fun contrast to the shirtings. (I like the way you matched the stripes in that blue/red block.) Great finish!
Lovely! The floral is a great contrast to the shirting, and I think it really lends a lot of movement and whimsy. Beautiful!
Very nice! I'm sitting here thinking you will have finished over 400 quilts by the end of 2020! ---"Love"
That is a fun combination of plaids, solids, and florals, Cathy! Great finish!
Good solid finish! I had to say the word frippery a few times just for the fun of it. Sandy at sewhigh.blogspot.com
What a great combination of fabrics and the solids! I really like this one, with all of its plaids!!!
I wish I had your mathematical brain paired with your creative way of making one step lead to another. As a result, a fabulous quilt, a great size and a donation that will be loved. Brilliant.
Wonderful scrap quilt. I love the irregular width of sashing.
Love the blocks and sashing. You are an inspiration to me.
Very ingenious use of sashings! A great finish!
What an interesting way to build a quilt. It made for a lovely quilt finish!
Oh, I LOVE all that thick and thin sashing! Sash City!
Great idea for rounds of sashing! I'm glad you explained it, because I certainly couldn't figure it out from just looking. I love the wild floral combined with the plaids :)
Cute design for shirt plaids! I didn't think that you liked to do sashing though. What I like best about shirt plaids is that if I make a mistake, I don't feel so bad because they don't cost me too much.
Such a great quilt! It's scrappy, and vibrant, and vintage-y, a lovely way to combine those solids & plaids. And the floral sashing just makes it!
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