Friday, October 29, 2010

City Weekend Coin Quilt

A cute baby quilt, purposefully made to use up not only some City Weekend fabric scraps but also the ever growing stash of small and odd sized pieces of batting:


By rotary cutting 2.5 inch strips from my leftover City Weekend fabric scraps, sewing a 1.5 inch strip of white fabric to the length of the first strip, and cross cutting this strip into 2.5 inch units, this quilt comes together really quickly.  Arrange the two-piece units at random and sew together into rows, then sew rows together.  Lots of strip and chain piecing.


The back of the quilt is pieced, again using scraps ( I cannot believe how much CW fabric I've still got left!).  And did you see the quilting?  Not a  straight line in sight:


A wavy line of running stitches - one of the decorative stitches on my sewing machine.  This was so easy  and fun to do, I didn't have to move the fabric from side to side to create the wavy line, instead the needle changes position with every stitch. 


And another deviation from RPQ "standard practice":  a stripey binding.  The color match was perfect and I couldn't resist this cute combination.


The City Weekend Coin Quilt is for sale.  You can find it listed in my Etsy Store. SOLD

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