Playing in the Rain

While I didn't actually play in the rain, I was playing while it rained :). In case you're curious - we ended up with 17 1/2" at our house! Glad that's over! But here's what kept me busy.  Going thru a random box of fabric, I found this orphan block.

Here's the block before it was quilted, but the color is way off.  Anyway, it's a sweet orphan a friend gave me several years ago and I threw it in the box.

Seeing so many little quilts out there, I decided maybe to just play and see if I could make a little quilt.  I had a little bag of bonus hst's left over from a project using Cabbage and Rose.  I'm so glad I spent the time to sew and press them, because they were waiting for me to use and they were all ready.

I started laying them out surrounding the orphan block.  Guess how many I used?  Every single one! I had exactly the number I needed to build a border.  I'm sure that will never happen again.  I didn't have any room to trim the orphan block so I had to add small strips to get the math to come out right.  So it ended up being a 9 patch.

I had some yardage left, so I added the blue border called it finished!  It was a little too big to probably be called a "little" quilt so I thought about how I could use it.

I saw my Viking sitting there with it's "lovely" cover.  Why not use the quilt to cover my machine when not in use and I would get to enjoy the quilt all the time??

So that's what I've done!!  I decided to make the side panels larger than the top and bottom to create the right shape to cover the machine.  When the binding was on I took it outside (it quit raining) and took pictures.  The color in these pictures is finally accurate!

I had so much fun quilting this - I can see why small quilts are so addicting!  I looked at each section, started quilting and just let my hands wander.

This is a happy quilt and it's so rewarding to use up things I had stuffed away for a "someday" project.  Who knew it would only take 17 1/2" of rain to inspire me :).

Here's the finished quilt.  Pretty cool.

Here's the back :).

Well, maybe it's a little big :0!!  I wanted to cover it completely - I guess I did that!!  At least I'll enjoy seeing it often:).

I also worked on some other things - almost finished with them.

Have a great day,

Karen