construction of my scrappy quilt
 

I had a few questions about the quilt and if I had a pattern, I did not have a pattern, just laying out the 2.5 inch scrap squares until I found a design I liked, sewing groups of 5 to 6 squares together and then laying them down, sewing sections together as I went along watching ahead that I had enough of that particular fabric to finish the diamonds. I accumilated all the fabrics after doing several batic quilts. when I am doing a project I go on a cut the scraps into either 10" 5" or 2.5" squares and put them in drawers for that particular size.. separating batiks from prints. when I became overrun with the batik 2.5" peices, I decided it was time to do somethine with them, I did use the same brown small print fabric through out the quilt to separate the diamonds. here are a few pics of the progress of the quilt.

before the binding
 

I quilted it with a wrought iron design throughout and around the border..

beautiful!!!!!!!

Awesome, gotta love those batiks. Good job.

It truly is beautiful! Are you going to enter it in the River Heritage Quilt Show in Cape Girardeau in September? I think you should!

Beautiful!!!

Love your quilt! It really came out nice. The wrought iron design shows up so nicely in the dark border too . Is it a panto that you used ?

Great use of scraps! Love it! :)

wonderful colors!

Beautiful, you did a wonderful job. Great scrappy.

very nice indeed lots of pactients you muct have . terriffic job

Wow! I really like it. It's surprised me because I don't use those colors but WOW!

I like the way this turned out.

Very nice. And, you have a good idea about cutting up your left over fabric right then. I get swamped in scraps! I think your quilt is a real beauty!

One of the very best scrappy quilts I have seen!

Beautiful quilt! I love what you did with 2.5" squares...

Wow, a beautiful scrappy quilt in batiks, this is one of my favourites :)

wonderful work

I just love it!!!

Beautiful quilt!

That is gorgeous! It must have taken some planning to get it to come out so well. Good job.

Beautiful quilt!

Wow, that is beautiful!

You made a wonderful quilt! The design is beautiful!

Hi Donna, Still think this is one of the most beautiful quilts that I have seen. Thanks for your PM's. Still having a hard time wrapping my head around how you did it. I will continue to study until it comes to me. BrendaK

Beautiful! What a stunning use of color! I love it!!! Are you also going to post it on the scrappy thread? I hope so!

My thoughts exactly.. please post this in the "scrappy quilt show" thread. Beautiful.

very pretty scrappy!!!

This is so pretty and I love your idea of separating the squares as you go along, then when you have enough start construction. I usually wait until my scrap bin is overflowing and then the job seems so overwhelming to me I stop before I start. Thanks for sharing and inspiring!

Gorgeous....

Holy cow!! this is beautiful. Great job!

I love what you did with this. Obviously, you selected some really nice batiks, to have such lovely scraps.

Beautiful quilt, I love your fabrics.

I love batiks, and the brown really brings it together, beautiful!

It looks like a pattern for a quilt called " quilt of many colors" I have. I love it!!

Beautiful!

I love your quilt. You did a fantastic job organizing your "scraps". How big is your finished quilt?

That is gorgeous! Bookmarked!

That's just gorgeous!

very nice I like it