Super Scrappy Lap Quilt for ScrapHappy August
Well, if it weren’t for quarterly participation in The Endeavourers online art quilt group, and monthly posts for ScrapHappy Day on the 15th, it seems I wouldn’t be posting at all! Maybe someday soon I will branch out again.
So here is a super scrappy lap quilt, that pretty much finishes up anything I have in the red/white/blue colorway. (When I brought it to my quilt group, celebrating that I have finished up one color group of scraps, I immediately received lots of offers of more, though.)
Scrap lap quilt for the VA hospital. I may have overcompensated for the predictability of my last quilt.
The blue and white strip down the middle is from the quilt I did before this one.
The batting on this is not real batting, it is a piece of a bright green polyester plush that was donated. It sewed up very nicely, but it didn’t pouf up around the stitches, and support the top nicely. But it was free and it was made useful.
Most of the construction and painting is done on our house, and when I took the quilt outside to photograph, I noticed how it looked like an extension of the house. And the wild, scrappy side is giving me an idea for a painted barn quilt on my garden shed! But not quite this wild.
Suddenly I have a 3-story house!
My artistic statement — “It’s a metaphor for all the odds and ends of lumber and tools surrounding my house, with me as the bright red dot in the middle, striving to maintain my sanity and creativity in the midst of all this disorder….”
ScrapHappy Day is the 15th of each month. It is hosted by Kate and Gun, and I thank them for providing a semblance of structure to my month! All of the participants are linked up here:
Kate , Gun, Titti, Heléne, Eva, Sue, Nanette, Lynn, Lynda,
Birthe, Turid, Susan, Cathy, Debbierose, Tracy, Jill, Claire, Jan,
Moira, Sandra, Linda, Chris, Nancy, Alys, Kerry, Claire, Jean,
Joanne, Jon, Hayley, Dawn, Gwen (me!), Connie, Bekki, Pauline and Sue L.
What a brilliant piece of serendipity! And if you can’t quite create order in the home chaos, you’ve at least managed to corral and tame all those scraps into something fun and brilliant to make someone else happy. Great ScrapHappy project!
Yes, I love corraling those scraps! If only it were as easy to bring order to the whole house…
It is beautiful and blue – well done.
Thank you, I was happy to get it finished! 🙂
I really like it! And I love the photos with your house, as well your artistic statement.
This is really fun, and I can relate to the red dot in the middle of the chaos. I love the outcome from renov projects, or new construction, but getting there sure isn’t fun. Funny how the quilt blends with the color of your home 🙂
I know, I didn’t plan it that way — those were just some of the scraps I have had the longest and I wanted them to move on! 🙂
I love this quilt and it looks great in the photos with your house. I think you could make a barn quilt for your house in this colourway. I also like your artistic statement 🙂
I think I will do a little cathedral window barn quilt on the shed — something I would never piece in real life, but easy to paint! 🙂
Love it! And the house looks great!
It really does! And that is just the boring back side, wait until you see the front!
I like that you felt free to arrange your pieces according to your fancy rather than any conventional notion of symmetry, which can be a real buzz kill. And the back is a fun surprise. When do we get a tour of the new and improved house?
This poor house — we have been trying to improve it for 10 years, but we have also been stuffing it full of more stuff! When I look back at the “after” pictures I take after each project, I am always so amazed — “How did it get so cluttered so fast?!” It is far from photo-ready at the moment. We still have to replace our outdoor stairway, then maybe I can take shots of the outside. 🙂
I really love that quilt. You’ve managed to include lots of textures and detail, yet it isn’t ‘busy’ at all, just intriguing and interesting.
Thank you. I hope it will end up with someone who loves scrappy quilts and that it brings up some good memories for them. 🙂
Definitely a scrappy project, and it looks wonderful. I know the veteran or veterans who use it will enjoy it’s comforting weight on a chilly day.
Thank you, I hope looking at it takes their mind of their troubles! 🙂
Love this quilt! Very festive! Very 4th of July (in August)! And i love the scrappiness of it. This is what quilts should look like.
On Thu, Aug 15, 2019, 12:05 AM Deep in the Heart of Textiles wrote:
> TextileRanger posted: “Well, if it weren’t for quarterly participation in > The Endeavourers online art quilt group, and monthly posts for ScrapHappy > Day on the 15th, it seems I wouldn’t be posting at all! Maybe someday soon > I will branch out again. So here is a super scrappy ” >
Thank you, that is what I think too! They should have all kinds of patterns and prints.
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Thank you, I look forward to going over and having a lovely afternoon reading all your suggestions!
Hope you enjoy them…thank you for your blog.
Your quilt is lively! Is your house really a bright blue??? I haven’t seen that since we lived in Maine, where I think people used it because everything is so black and white during the long winter. It’s lively, too!
It is a dark denim blue, but it does look pretty bright in the sunlight. Our neighbors put a very similar color on their new house, and we both loved it, so we just went with it. We are surrounded by pine forest so I get tired of the same green shade all year, I really need to look at other colors! When we get it all done, with our new white staircase and everything, I will post some before-and-afters. 🙂
What a wonderful donation to the VA hospital! Love the arrangement of fabric choice and colors!
Thank you, I love to take unwanted scraps and turn them into something useful. 🙂