My dear friend, Trish, from Lucky Lola Studios asked me to make her a little quilt she could use for newborn portraits. Something pastel and gender neutral. My local thrift store is the perfect place to pick up bags of scrap fabric for $0.50-$2. It’s often vintage or good quality quilting remnants from Fabric Depot. If you’ve got a use for little bits of this and that all the way up to fat-quarter sized pieces, their grab-bags can be a good deal.
A while back, I found a bag that was all 5×5 or smaller pieces or strips of Depression-Era reproduction fabric. Most of the pieces were 2 inches or smaller, but some were long strips. I’d been holding it back for the perfect project, and it seemed like just enough to fulfill Trish’s request.
My favorite pieces were these teacup prints! Just enough to cobble together eight squares for the main blocks.
Since we’re on the subject of handwork, I wanted to share these books my sister-in-law got us for Christmas. All of the scenes are made from felted wool! The kids and I have loved looking through them and Ruth has been researching more about how to make felt figures with wire frames underneath.
I finished the quilt with some machine quilting and used some vintage thrift store fabric for the back and thrifted bias tape for the binding. Looking forward to getting it off in the mail this weekend!