Woops

The other night I was having my usual evening blog surf, as you do, and came across this raw edge applique circle quilt which I thought looked great and I book marked for later reference (I must have a hundred tutorials bookmarked for later reference LOL).

Well blow me down but looked what had appeared in my sewing room by the following afternoon!

This was super quick to do, Allison sure came up with a really neat method to create a drunkards path look but without any of the curved piecing. I used up scraps only for this project... mostly left overs from tin whistle creations (pram liners etc), so thats why it looks so... well scrappy. I tried to mainly stick with brights, leaning to the novelty prints, but chucked in a few non-matchy type prints tones just to keep it that little bit more unique and ecclectic.

The only changes I made to Allisons tutorial was to cut out 8.5" circles (instead of her 6.5") and sew them onto 10.5" squares (instead of her 8.5"). I only did this to build a bigger quilt quicker, but in some ways it was limiting because many of my scraps were too small to be used. If i was going to do it again from scraps I would stick with Allisons measurements, but if I was going to buy fabric for the project then I would use the bigger measurements, just because I dont like my blocks too small.

This top is just going to hang off the bookself (AKA design wall) for a while. I am pondering some borders- perhaps some scrappy sashing from the left over bits featured in the main top... but the final decision wont get made until I have someone to give it too! And then the decision will probably be determined by how much time I have before it needs to be given to them!