Being economical with economy blocks

When announcing #scraptastictuesday winners last month I showed you this quilt top I made from 41 economy blocks.  

I was being economical with the blocks by making them into stars with an alternate snowball block, made from the cut off triangles left over from other blocks. 


I was even more stingy by adding lots of negative space around them.

I actually love the look this gave me, all because I didn't want to fussy cut more economy blocks.  Sometimes it pays dividends to think outside the box.

Anyway I quilted it with a serpentine stitch in vertical lines.  It is a look I have often seen but never followed up on.  Well I'm so glad I did as the texture this gives is amazing!   It does shrink it up somewhat so this quilt that was a bit small is even smaller now, but very snuggly.

I used up the last of a pink floral fabric that I had on the back and went with a yellow gingham binding cut on the bias as I love the effect that gives though I didn't actually want the stretchiness.

And so here it is

I will be linking this little quilt up to the Finish-A-Long 2016 at the end of quarter 2 

It started out as just a little pile of square blocks on my list here.