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Stop the Presses! I Actually Made Something Out of Stash Fabric!
Will wonders never cease? Believe it or not, I actually made quilts (three of them!) from stash fabric. It's like a Christmas Miracle! It's the New Me! If I keep this sort of thing up, soon I will have the strength of ten Grinches. (plus two!)
About three years ago, I made a Log Cabin in the barnraising set out of 1930's fabrics for my church's fundraiser.
I didn't know how big I wanted the quilt to be, so I just started cutting one and a half inch wide strips, and forgot to stop cutting. Before I knew it, I had enough strips to make a quilt large enough to keep an entire Amish family snuggly warm throughout a harsh winter. Since we don't exactly have lots of Amish families at our church, what with being a congregation of lutefisk eating Lutherans and all, I decided to just make the quilt a generous queen size and call it good. The leftover strips, all forty eleven thousand of them, were jammed into a giant Zip-Lock bag and shoved into the back of a drawer to continue to age.
Occasionally I'd stumble across the bag, which was stuffed so full of strips that it wouldn't close and looked like it was about to pop, and wonder what on earth I was ever going to do with all of those one and a half inch strips. Then my pesky little redheaded brother, who is almost six and a half feet tall and really isn't very little at all, announced that in March he will be the proud papa of a baby girl, and I knew that all of my quilty prayers had come true and I now (finally!) have a use for my strips. Ta-da! It's a Double Irish Chain, made entirely from stash fabric!
I made the first one and liked it so much that I decided to make two more for use as baby quilts for my children's babies (when the children grow up! not yet! wait for years and years, please, kids!) ...
...so that when the time comes, I will be a prepared Grandma. I bought some nice snuggly butter-yellow flannel to use as backing, and will load the backing on my longarm and line those three little quilts up like an assembly line and quilt them all at once. And look! This is all that's left of my about-to-explode Zip-Lock bag of strips!
I just love babies, and their quilts.
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