This top actually dates back to my covid lockdown series, not because it’s when I started it but because it is made of the scraps from a quilt made during that time.
Back in 2022 I made the Rainbow Cubic Quilt with this beautiful rainbow pack I’d gotten in a raffle. I was also able to complete a table runner with some of the scraps… and yet I still had more. So what to do with those…
After sitting on the shelf for a while I finally decided something had to be done with them. Everything was sewn together, I just didn’t know what to do with them. It happened to be Christmas time and I thought they kind of remind me of Christmas lights. Inspiration hits.
I got to work creating the hexagons and then laid them out randomly so they’d be all spread out among the grey hexagons. I added the white to spread them out, but in hindsight I think I added a little too much white.
I got all of the rows together and felt like it really didn’t need a border; it was already a pretty modern-style quilt. I needed a backing though, and found one on my annual trip to Rosies in San Diego. It was the oversized backing fabric, which meant less piecework to get it to the right size.
My goal with the quilting was to make sure everything had good texture on it, but I felt like there was no
need for a particular pattern. So I went with a meander and kept it simple.
Once it was all done, I added my label and completed the binding with some of the backing fabric I still had left. All finished!
I took a step back and looked at my finished product and
realized I accidentally switched the last row, so it’s not in step all of the
other rows. Yikes! Oh well, I’ve heard the Amish believe nothing should be
perfect so they purposely add flaws to the quilts. I’m sure that’s what this
was. I purposeful mistake. It’s curious to see if others notice it.
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