Some months ago I was given a heap of fabric scraps. They weren't really my style, so they kind of stuck out like a sore thumb on my fabric shelves. I decided I had to use them up quickly, so I paired them with a Kona Indigo solid to make this whirlygig quilt.
It was fun to make, and I had a lot of help from my quilting assistant Ollie, who helped me lay the blocks randomly on the floor, then passed the blocks to me in the correct order so I could sew them together.
I decided on the pieced strip on the back to use up even more of the scraps, and teamed that with a Kona navy solid. The scrappy binding ties it all together.
I used invisible thread (in smoke) to quilt it as I didn't want the quilting to interfere with the look of the quilt. Navy thread would have darkened the whirlygigs, and a lighter thread would be too visible on the indigo. Although I like the finished appearance of the quilting, I won't be using invisible thread again!
It was too close in colour to my hair, so I was constantly confused as to what was thread and what was hair. It was a pain in the arse winding onto the bobbin - as you can see above it broke one of the bobbins, resulting in a tangled nasty mess. Never again.
On the plus side, though, the only thing I needed to purchase during the making of the quilt was the invisible thread. Everything else, including the batting, was from my stash. And who doesn't love a stash busting quilt??
We live in a small house, Ollie's bedroom is actually the dining room, with double glass doors adjoining the lounge. For nearly 3.5 years we have lived with brown paper on the glass doors to limit the amount of light that streams into his room in the evenings. Today I got sick of looking at that bloody stylish paper, so rifled through the stash and found a Snow Flower panel that has been waiting for the right project. I sashed the panel in some Kona in Meringue, and the binding is possibly Kona Coal.
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