I'm still working on using up the squares from the oriental layer cake sets I bought in America a couple of years ago. I did a quilt with the teal/blue squares and one with the red/gold/black squares. Now here's one with the lavender and purple squares (and a couple of gold/black and gold/cream ones thrown in):
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| 52" x 64" - Quilted on the Q-Matic - bamboo batting |
I've started working through my stash of batting scraps. I have a tub for scrap bamboo batting and one for cotton. As I have sizeable off-cuts after finishing a quilt, I've been tossing them into the tubs and have accumulated quite a lot. There's no point in wasting it. This quilt used four wide-but-short strips. I just slipped them in between the top and backing as I advanced the quilt. It was easy and you really can't tell where the batting scraps overlap slightly.
Here's a closeup of one of the blocks. The fabric in these layer cake sets has metallic gold highlighting, which unfortunately doesn't show up in the photo. But you can see the light lavender thread I used.
I chose the "China grove 2" stitch pattern for this quilt.
The backing looks terrific with this pattern, and is dense enough to hide the seam in the backing.
There are still a handful of layer cake blocks left, but not enough to make much of a quilt. I'll have to give some thought about what to do with them. They're certainly too beautiful to waste!
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