after spending a zillion hours on my scrappy halloween spooky village quilt, i wanted my next quilt to be a quick and easy finish. i bought all the fabrics from a new fall-ish line we have at the shop, selected a relatively simple pattern, and immediately got to work.
of course, because i can’t just leave well enough alone, i slightly complicated matters by making a semi-scrappy background, as well as only making leaf from each fabric, instead of two, as the pattern called for.
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the pattern came together really quickly and suddenly my design wall was full of blocks to be organized. in retrospect, i wish i had used more of the colorful fabrics, and less of the browns and blacks, but there was no going back now.
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rather than spend another $40 or so on a backing, i opted to spend another few hours piecing a backing from leftover fabrics. the math was a little touch and go, but i managed to get the backing big enough, basted her up in the foyer, gave it the all over meander treatment, and i was almost done.
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i bound it in the orange grid sort of print from the line, which required some careful pressing and fussy cutting, but was totally worth the effort. and then i forced the giant first born lidkid to assist me in a photoshoot.
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of course, i also couldn’t pass up a quick little shoot on the back deck with my fall themed diorama as a background prop.
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this isn’t my favorite quilt of all time. it’s just not really my style. i don’t know what i was thinking when i bought the fabrics. but. it was fast. and cheap. and it added to our fall festiveness i guess. but if you see it on etsy next year, don’t be surprised.
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Love your fall quilt and decorations! Happy place!