"Cornered"

This was one of a kind for me! I’ve not made very quilts yet with 2.5” strips - but here’s one.

You could easily do this one with a bunch of scraps, however. It might not look quite as coordinated as this one does, but it could easily look nice. Why not?

The strips rolls I used for this were from Bluprint, which, as you know, is closing shop. If you don’t know it, it’s true. That info is here -

I chose to use up some of my limited supply of 80/20 or all cotton batting on this one - we’re going to keep this one for our bed. The colors are what my husband likes and I’ve found that this type of batting actually is better for us than a poly batting as it breathes better. The quilt is cooler, in other words.

Hubby gets too hot under poly batting (except for the coldest days of the winter when we may pile on several quilts at once)! Plus, since it is the first big quilt I’ve made with strips rolls, I just wanted to keep it.

Quilting with the cotton batting is easier than with poly. It just is.

It has lower loft and doesn’t shift inside the layers as much. The quilt itself is heavier, so moving it around on the machine is actually harder, but the quilting itself is just like “a piece of cake” compared. I’ve been using poly almost exclusively for about a year now but decided it’s time to start using some of the cotton batting I have - especially for extra-special quilts.

I did a swirl/curl again when quilting.

The pattern is a basic quarter log cabin block using 2.5” strips and 1.5” strips. I’ve not done many quilts with a layout like this - simply all facing the direction, but that was part of the charm of this one, I thought. All symmetrical. All simple. All corners.

Not sure what else to say about it, except that I really like how it turned out. Since I used 2 strips rolls - had 1 strip leftover and part of another one - I felt like I did a decent job of using up the 2 rolls with almost no waste.

Not that it’s waste if it gets put in with my strips….

The tan/cream fabric is a Polish solid - the last of this color. When I ordered it, I asked for an off white, but they sent me this one - which I believe is actually called “cappuccino”. I’m glad for the mistake and I want to get it again as it is definitely a light tan - and very practical!

When ordering wholesale from these companies I am learning to send an exact picture of what I want and not just explain it. They don’t have nice sites to order things from with carts and such like we have in the USA with various sites like Moda and other wholesale sites.

I have to write an email to the company, explain what I want. They then write me back with any questions, then send an invoice which I have to pay FIRST.

Then they send the fabric and when I get it, at times I’ve had a surprise. Two times, in fact. Wait. three. Once I ordered the tree fabric that was supposed to be green and gray and I got a tree fabric - same design— but all gray/black and tan. Then one time ordered something and instead I got a little children’s tepee fabric. That has been the hardest for me to use - I was not a happy camper and could have sent it back but it was for charity quilts, so I just used it, not wanting to go through the hassle of shipping it back. The other time was this one - I asked for an off white and got this tan. For me, it was a happy mistake as I was actually pleased with what I got - probably it was better than what I had asked for which was just an off white.

These bolts are big - either 60 or 100 meters (think yards) of all one color! I’ve used up a lot of this tan when making my Big Fabric Haul charity quilts - and that’s the main reason I really need to buy another bolt of it. It works so very well with those browns — I can go through yards and yards of it with making several charity quilt tops at once.

ANYWAY…

Back to this one - Here it is on my newly redone line.

In the summer the area where I take pictures is heavily shaded. It makes taking pictures a bit tricky, but when I get it right, the background is beautiful! I love all the green grass for the backdrop. They are birch trees, and in the fall and winter they don’t have leaves, so it’s wide open to the sun here. In the summer things get a bit more difficult to get the look I’m going for.

The quilt roll -

From a distance….

The pattern is here - it’s an easy one. Probably the hardest thing about this is cutting it out and then laying out the blocks in the best possible arrangement, trying to mix up the colors!

Have a great day wherever you are reading this!

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Be sure to check out what my sis has for you in the store!

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