cabbagepatchkid

Thanks for sharing this:thumbup: I had wanted to do the HST's this way but I'm not good at the math of figuring out how big to cut them.

BellaBoo

I made the Christmas Lights quilt last year. It goes together very fast and looks amazing. I have it on my sofa as a throw. I used fleece backing, didn't quilt it at all, the fleece holds the cotton fabric to itself. I put a six inch wide border on the quilt top and then stripped and tied the quilt top and the fleece together all around like a fleece tied quilt. It's been washed several times and looks great.

omak

Last night, I read a thread about using fleece as a backing, and with your post above, I am thinking that I am going to start going that way. I think, it may be because it is winter, or because I am getting older and the cold seems more harsh.
whatever it is, that thread (wish I could remember which one it is) along with your post really changed my mind about fleece. Thank you for adding to our information <wave>

Suse

Did you put on a fleece border?

omak

No, I think the border, and top were all made of cotton, only the back was fleece. There was another thread on which we discussed fleece as backing and, you can bind as usual, or wrap the fleece to the front for fleece binding. The neat thing about that is: fleece doesn't ravel like other fabric, so a decorative stitch along the edge when you use the fleece from the backing as the binding ... works really well <wave>

omak

Okay - - I need some feedback ... will be uploading pictures later
This is the problem!
I went upstairs to look through my containers and I found YARDAGE of pink and green!
What do you think will happen if I use them up as is and add scrappy neutrals and greens? <wave>

cattailsquilts

So print out the instructions as she posts them, then at the end decide what fabrics to use!

vbourck

Then it is a "controlled" scrappy- I think it would look fine. Sometimes it pulls a scrappy quilt together to have colors that are all the same and the scrappy parts can add texture and variety. I say GO FOR IT! and get parts 1&2 done before part 3 is posted.

omak

Wait until you see!
I probably should go out to the van and bring in the container that has all my strips cut according to size to find more colors, but I will upload what I have and I can go from there.
I was a bit surprised by how much pink I found.
Keeping in mind that Miss Bonnie suggested about 15 different pieces in the color way, I found way more than that, so it should be good to go. <wave>

omak

So! I took the 15 minute challenge on another thread, and this is what took up part of my 15 minutes.
Now, be forewarned - - I know it is supposed to be scraps, but I don't store my scraps by color (guess what is going to get changed after NEW YEAR! yep), so that was an impossible task.
Here are my color stacks <wave>