Rainbow Scrap Challenge Quilt Finish

I am happy to present my first RSC quilt, now finished and ready for a new home. Every year since 2015 I’ve participated in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge with Angela at So Scrappy. I’ve made one, two or sometimes even three projects with scraps, a few I’ve kept, but most I’ve given away as comfort quilts. This one will be donated somewhere I think. 

This quilt, you may recall, is another where I built small slabs with crumbs and then cut them into HSTs or rectangles. 

You can find the tutorial for the block here. I quilted the blocks with a large meander and did a little dot to dot in the squares on point formed where the blocks meet. I nearly did some dot to dot in the squares but decided that the pop of the four on-point squares was enough. I used a very pale yellow Exquisite polyester for the quilting.

It took a few takes to get this photo as the wind is nuts this morning!

The back is chunks of fabrics that needed to be moved out of the stash. I often have a kid in mind for these quilts so they I looked for happy prints.

Cats and unicorns became the theme!

I pulled out my bag of binding leftovers and had plenty to make a scrappy binding. There aren’t many leftovers in there now which is another advantage to making these scrappy happy quilts!

A glimpse of that corner of the garden

Quilt Stats:

Size: 45.5" square

Pattern: my own scrappy Churn Dash
Fabric: scraps

Batting: Fairfield 100% polyester

Backing: leftover chunks

Quilted: on Avril,  33 079 stitches

Threads: pieced with various threads on my Bernina and Featherweight; quilted with Exquisite polyester; Bottom Line in the bobbin

Next up is sewing the blocks together for the second RSC project, and quilting it.

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