I’ve actually had this one finished for a while now but I hadn’t taken any photos.

But that is behind me now.

This beauty represents a lot of time - and yes, a lot of 1.5” strips and scraps. Lots. I purposely searched through scraps for red and brights - as I wanted to keep this one bright and clear - hardly any browns at all in this one!

Towards the end, I actually started using pieces from my 2.5” bags, though, and strip piecing segments. It was taking too long! (Uh oh. I shouldn’t have said that, huh?) To do that, just sew however many colorful pieces you want together using your 2.5” strips. Press to one side and subcut at 1.5”. I did that just to speed up the process. I felt like a traitor to my 1.5” strips, however.

But since I do have a few more bags of 2.5” strips than 1.5” strips (understatement!) it’s fine. I was still using pieces from my bags of precut strips. :)

If this looks like a lot of work…well, yes it was. No getting around it.

Those strips with the pinks were already cut and in groups like that. They were leftovers from my argyle bargello quilt top.

Since I’ve already discussed this quilt at length in various posts here, here, here and here to name a few. I don’t feel like I need to do it more. This post is about the finish.

It’s the same layout as the other sizes I’ve done. This is the large layout I did use this time.

If you are looking for the original pattern, it is here!

The link provided gives the pattern for the 2”x3.5” bricks.

layout I used for 1.5 inch quilt cut to be accurate.jpg

I haven’t done an awful lot with my 1.5” strips. I need to figure out more ways to incorporate them with other scrap quilts I do. But first I’m focusing on the greens. At least at the moment I am. I had thought I wouldn’t. I originally though that I’d spread the greens out over a long period of time, but once I got going on them, I’ve just kept rolling along. And I hate to stop forward progress when things are going well.

As usual - I like the quilt roll.

With this one, I used a kind of batting I was able to get here in Poland at a very reasonable price. I hadn’t used it before - and I’m not exactly sure what it is. I bought it on our local auction at $3.36/meter (39”) (230 cm wide - 91”). But it’s heavy. It’s actually too dense.

I had decided to free motion quilt this one with a basic meander, and boy was it hard to do with this batting. That surprised me, actually, as I had expected it to act like the cotton or cotton/poly batting I had from the states. However…no way.

It was heavier and I just couldn’t do much with it. I barely was able to do some simple meandering.

So, while I bought enough of that batting to make several queen size quilts with, I will probably use it only in quilts where I straight line quilt with the walking foot. I had wanted the lower loft than I get with poly batting with this quilt. I’m bringing this up only because I wanted to show you the batting I did use on this one. It washed up fine - though it does make for a very heavy quilt.

With this much piecing, and a heavy bat, this quilt weighs 9 pounds! It measures 92”x102” after quilting and washing once.

Once again, I used the layout that I have used for the larger sizes - only just made more repeats of the design.

Here are all of the versions I have made so far from this layout: I’m kind of tired of making it (not looking at it!) but still have the bricks cut for the 3.5”x6.5” version which should go together pretty quickly!