0 scrapper's delight {a finished quilt}

I managed to finish my son's Scrapper's delight quilt over the weekend. 

We both love how it turned out and it's a perfect size for him, 60" x 60". 

I started off by using a Scrapper's Delight pattern from Sunday Morning Quilts, but I ended up changing the pattern a little - you can read about it here.

I backed it with blue minky (per my son's request) and quilted it in concentric squares (thank you, Jamie for the suggestion). I worried a little about this minky being so "bumpy" but at the end it gave me absolutely no trouble at all. Yay!!!

I love how fun yet unobtrusive this quilting turned out- it makes for an interesting backing while blending in with the quilt top very nicely. 

I finished the quilt off by using Kona Ash for the binding. I think it frames this busy quit so well and calms it down a little, too. 

This was such an interesting quilt to work on and I absolutely love that middle square "popping out" of the quilt. Plus, this pattern lends itself so well to boyish colors (always a hard thing for me to do).

Thanks so much for reading. Svetlana

Detail: scrapper's delight {a finished quilt}

0 scrapper's delight {a finished quilt top}

I can hardly believe it, but last night I managed to finish this Scrapper's Delight quilt top (pattern from Sunday Morning Quits).

I started making this quilt for my son about two weeks ago but after getting these 8 - 12.5" blocks done I was stuck. I sort of liked how busy and crazy it was, and my son liked it too, yet there was something "not right" about it at the same time.

Here's where most of my dilemma came from. If I made all 36 blocks as planned, the finished quilt would finish at 72" square. I was not sure my seven year old son needed such a giant quilt. If, however, I decided to make one less row of blocks, the pattern would not match and I did not like that. So, it seemed I would either end up with a quilt that was too small (4 x 4 layout) or too big (6 x 6 layout).

And then it struck me. Why not make larger blocks (15.5" square), do a 4 x 4 layout, and end up with a 60" square quilt top?!?! So that's exactly what I did. And I like it :) 

I especially like the middle square sort of coming forward - a totally unintentional, but fun design element.

I'm linking this quilt up to Rachel's Festival of Strings. Hope you'll stop by to see all the beautiful stringy quilts already submitted.

Detail: scrapper's delight {a finished quilt top}

0 change of plans

Hello, happy Sunday to you all. How's everyone doing? Hope you all are having a lovely weekend. I had big sewing plans for this weekend....and then I broke my toe :( 

So, instead of making a planned progress on this quilt (scrapper's delight from Sunday Morning Quilts) for my son, I spent hours at the doctor's office.

 My foot was then placed in the ugliest shoe possible and I was told to keep off my feet for rest of the weekend and go see the specialist on Monday (another very sad face here).

What is it with those medical things that they have to be so ugly?

So, to make myself feel a little better while still obeying doctor's orders, I decided to work on some EPP hexagons. Aren't they pretty? I'm thinking of turning them into a small wall hanging or a pillow. Maybe something similar to this beauty by Malka.

Hope your weekend turned out much better than mine. Talk to you soon. Svetlana

Detail: change of plans