Scrap Quilt #109 – The Red-Orange and Green Spring Quilt

I seem to start off a lot of posts by saying, “Someone gave me…” Well, they do.  This time someone gave me a Ziploc bag full of 10 different sizes of blocks in several color ways of a Fossil Fern fabrics. It must have been for a pieced block quilt and they either cut too many or never put it together. I don’t have a clue who gave it to e or what the block was supposed to be originally. I just stacked them n the width sizes and sewed the end to end. I ended up with three very long strips I like to call, Quilt by the Inch.  After getting the 3 strips I sewed them together to get a big sheet of fabric. It wasn’t pretty. I didn’t like it.  So, I decided to cut it into squares and laid it out on the tables in the studio.  I found  a green fabric that seemed to really go with all the other colors and the patterns. I cut the same size squares, put them all on point and alternated the colors. When I got it all where i could study it, it screamed flowers and fruit. I drew off 20 different original patterns and started picking colors that went with the Fossil Fern colors. It was hard to find enough  different fabrics that matched. When I started fusing the designs on I realized that it was gonna be an okay quilt.  I sewed all the blocks on the diagonal in rows, and then I did all the raw edges with a buttonhole stitch and did some thread painting on some blocks.I took it to AWOL and finished it last week. I found an orange for the border triangles and I pieced the with green and yellow. Is it bragging if I say, I sure do like this one? It amazes me how I stretch my brain when I am designing these from other people’s scraps. It is always like a challenge. Someday I need to work on some of my original designs using my fabrics.