Six months into 2020 and I'm on quilt #9.
This quilt was super easy to make from start to finish. I think the hardest part was deciding on the quilting design.
The pattern is called Candy Store and is in the Love of Quilting (May/June 2012) magazine.
The pattern uses 2½-inch strips which I cut from my stash of fat quarters. I used 18 fat quarters plus a yard of fabric for the center of the blocks so it's super scrappy.
This quilt is featured on the cover of the magazine and what caught my eye was the grey sashing, borders, and binding. I don't know if I've mentioned this but grey is my favorite color. I used fabric from my thrift store sheet for all of that.
The quilting design that I decided on was just a simple straight line diamond grid pattern. It was super easy which I needed since the design I first planned would have taken twice as long and by the time I had gotten to the quilting phase (June 17th), I had decided I wanted to make a Fourth of July quilt. So I needed something super easy and super fast. Thankfully I got it quilted in just 1 day and I sewed all of the binding on by machine instead of my usual way, which is to machine sew it to the front of the quilt and then hand sew the binding to the quilt back. The quilt was completed on June 19th. Whew.
The quilt finished at 50" x 66.5".
Thanks for stopping by.
Camille
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