Scrap Obsession Quilt

I'm so excited!  I finished a scrap quilt today! I've been working on this one for a long time. I called it Scrap Obsession. I wanted this to be a nice Leader/Ender project to work on while I'm sewing other things. Until I became obsessed with it.  I couldn't wait to get to work on it. I thought I'd use up a good bit of my scraps but there are still a big bunch in my bin. Oh well, another quilt or two for another day!

This quilt is made up on 3 1/2" x  2 little bricks from odd cuts of fabric from my scrap bin.  I found the pattern from the youtube channel Sew Very Easy with Laura Ann Coia. It was so much fun to sew!

I am trying not to buy fabric and so I dug around in my stash and found the perfect border and binding!

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I freemotion quilted it with a gold thread on my Juki. I thought the thread color would pop more than it does, but I love how subtle it turned out. It measures 91.5" long by 65" wide. It's a big one!

Some of the fabrics I used are from a friend's Mom who is quilting rockstar and legend. Lynn is an amazing quilter and designed some of the quilting tools/notions we use today. Lynn has alzheimers/dementia and doesn't sew as much as she once did.

I will always think of Lynn when I use this quilt.

Double Churn Dash Quilt top

 I'm not fond of the churn dash quilt block. But when I saw this quilt, I loved it. It seemed like it had movement and flowed. A friend suggested the class at our local quilt shop so I took it with her. We had so much fun and I learned so much!

I'm trying to dig into my stash, so I asked my husband to pick out a jelly roll for me to use. He picked an asian  fabric line for me to use.   I love the golds and grays in it. I picked out a really neat black and gold for the border and a  black grunge for the backing. The border will be a neat black and gold stripe.

 What I love most about this quilt top is that it is so out of my comfort zone. It isn't perfect but I'm happy with it.