That backing is great! I am looking forward to seeing the whole quilt. The sit and sew group I am in does a lot of scrappy quilts. Lots of fabrics donated for charity quilts so that has us motivated. It is amazing what new quilters will do once they get going! They don't know all the rules so they just run with ideas. Taria
Howdy!
I made up the pattern, just playing w/ the scraps & blocks 'til it looked right. Cut strips of scraps, sew them together, trim to 5.5" squares ('cuz it just felt right). Cut those in half, half again (yes, that does make quarter triangles ; no, I don't worry about bias edges: not a problem). Mix & don't match those triangles into 4-piece blocks. The organized part: Then I took this collection of State Art by Northcott Fabrics, cut up 5.5" squares, took 2 squares, made those part of a 4-patch w/ 2 scrap blocks. Then I found a large piece of a grid of red w/ white stripes (a little hard on the eye, all that grid moving around on the fabric ), used it for the connecting strips. It all got bordered w/ plain black, to compliment the black in the State Art prints
A fun quilt, full-size, so it's kind of heavy; perfect for our "light" Texas winters. Cold today, sleet last night, will be warm in a couple of days. Well, we call it winter. The Winter Texans call it "home".
Cheers! Ragmop/Sandy p.s. I know there are popular quilters who make their fame & livelihood w/ their scrap patterns, & I say, "Good for them!" Great business acumen is quite admirable. I've been doing scrap patterns for 30+ yrs, never sold or stole any of of them from anyone. ;-D Just having fun.