Quilt Two - One Mountain, Ten Quilts

On to quilt #2 of my scrap project, One Mountain, Ten Quilts.  This time I wanted to try Sharon Pederson's two sided quilts.  I had seen the episode several times on Simply Quilts, and I wanted to give it a whirl!  I wasn't interested in the quilt that had been demonstrated, but I was interested in the concept of quilt as you go, and joining the blocks with sashing.  I really enjoyed this project, and was happy with how turned out.  Working in such small increments, you could make a really large quilt, and not be overwhelmed by the size.

Some advangtages of this type of quilt:

• You can use the smallest of scraps - one little pink block in the close up photo, is only about a 1/2" high
• The back of the quilted blocks can be rejects, or leftovers from other projects
• Use up leftover batting!  I cut ALL of my leftover batting pieces into usable size squares, and strips.  It took a couple of hours, but when it was done, I had bags, and bags of ready to go batting.
• Quilt as you go, that's always a cool thing :)
• Think of this as a flip and sew method, but instead of sewing on foundation fabric, your foundation is the batting and the quilt back
• Block Size 8" square when I started, but trimmed down to 7.5"
• Quilt Size 30" x 38"

        

My rejected and leftover blocks from other projects work perfectly for the back, it so much better than them wasting away in Land of Misfits.

Two quilts down, 8 to go!  Sometimes I thought that bag would never run out of scraps...it finally did!  I still believe that they somehow multiply.

Cheers,

Cherri

Comments

[Abby]

Thank you for adding to my to-do list! :) It's so beautiful!

[Teresa]

I really do love the look of the crazy patch blocks and I also enjoy quilt as you go projects. So nice to have it done when the piecing is done!

[Lee-Anne Gilbert]

I have been contemplating another quilt as you go project for awhile now... I made one a couple of years ago and forgot how liberating they are... good job!! Lx