The Madallion Quilt - Scraptastic Tuesday June Link Up

It has been on my FAL list for quite a while to make a quilt from some of my Karen Lewis textiles scraps!  

I finally got started in March!  I decided to use my hot colour scraps and was thinking it would be a log cabin sort of thing....

Fairly quickly it lost that sort of look as I added some scrap wonky triangles...

Then I cut some 1.5" squares to make a regular (rather than wonky) border .. 

And added some grey.... another wonky, but this time rectangular border - with a promise of more wonky triangles....

I added purple and that is when I fell in love with this project...

It is strange how one decision can make such a difference...

It just needed one final border - back to grey and those pinks!  

I decided to hand quilt this one with some bright colours, changing the colour as it came to an end in the needle!  It was a very free, random sort of responsive feeling quilting this one.  Mostly I outlined the shapes...

But decided the outer orange border  would benefit from something more so I quilted it with a Baptist or Amish fan!  Nothing marked, just quilt round your thumb and repeat ever outwards until it is time to start a new fan!

I love the texture this pattern gives!

Then there had to be a scrappy orange KLT binding, which I finished by hand!    

     

And Ta Da here is the #Madallion quilt!

So that is the scrappy thing I have been up to.

 Now its time for you to share your scrappy projects, plans and ideas.

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• Mad About Patchwork - a $40 gift certificate

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• Karen Lewis Textiles - scrap pack

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Please join Leanne from She Can Quilt and I by linking up a blog post or flickr or instagram photo sharing a scrappy project, in progress or finished, or your thoughts on dealing with your scrap mountain:

• You don't have to have joined us before, everyone is welcome.

• One link per person, and it will be your entry into the random draw for the prizes. It is the same link up here and at Leanne's blog - She Can Quilt - so you only need to link up on one of our blogs.

• This link is to share with our community about using your scraps, please don't use it to advertise your own products or events.

• You can link up from your blog, instagram or flickr, but you have to link up to be entered in the prize draw.

• Please visit at least a few of the links, they are very inspiring, and leave comments too as everyone loves to connect.

• Use the Scraptastic Tuesday button and invite your friends to join us too. Please share our button, or a link or the hashtag #scraptastictuesday in your linked post or photo.

• The link is open until next Monday night at 10:00 pm MST. We will announce the winners next Tuesday.

• If you have trouble linking up, let me or Leanne know and we will get you sorted.

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

This quilt is on my Quarter 2 list here