My personal "challenge" quilt: another leftovers quilt
 

I am sometimes the happy recipient of other people's leftovers. One church in GA sent me some fabric and in with that fabric was a bunch of scraps that seemed to be coordinated. As I pulled all of the fabric out of the box, I saved out what seemed to be similar in color and touch (very, VERY nice feel to this fabric). Instead of throwing it in with my normal scrap/box, I put it all together in a ziploc bag and put it in my UFOs cabinet. I wanted to keep them together, and didn't know where else to put it.

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This week, I wanted to work on something but am not up to starting something really big like a bargello, intricate illusion quilt or something like that, so I began thinking about my UFOs. I opened the cabinet and pulled out this bag of stuff. I decided to do my own challenge quilt. [Note: I've never been sure of the purpose of a "challenge" quilt just for the purpose of accepting challenge, as I always have plenty of my own projects without someone else telling me what colors, etc to use--] :p

So, I challenged myself to make a quilt top out of these fabrics--I could add off white/cream to stretch it, but not add other fabrics/colors.

I had to sleep on it overnight.

I decided to go ahead and cut up the fabric into squares and strips, 4.5", 2.5" and 1.5". I decided no triangles as there is more waste with them and I needed all the fabric I could possibly come up in order to get a bed sized quilt. :D At least that is my story and I'm sticking to it!
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I made as many small 4 patches out of the 1.5" strips as I could before I went to EQ to see what I could do.

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I have always liked the simplicity of floating blocks of fabric and these fabrics are really pretty/nice, but found out quickly that I actually had more fabric than I would need for that simple style and I wanted to use it all up, so I came up with this design:

(I only floated the 2.5" squares):

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I managed to use up almost every bit of fabric. I do have some scrappy 2.5" blocks that I made by sewing small pieces together.

And here's the top. Just finished. And almost no leftovers/scraps (OK, OK...there are a few, but not many, I promise!) In the end it looks more white than I envisioned on the computer, but it is fine and I am pleased.

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It is queen sized---88x96"

Wow...you did a wonderful job of making it all into a pretty quilt . I really like your design.

Oh, it's lovely!!!!!! Great Job. :thumbup:

You did great! did you use an EQ program to figure it out?

yes, I have EQ 6 but don't feel very competent on it. Am trying to change that this year (another one of my goals).

I do mostly Scrappy Quilting. Get blessed with all my friends leftovers. All the quilts I make with the scraps go back to the group for charity give away at the local hospital for terminally ill patients. And of course, there's always Bonnie Hunter to help me along with patterns for scraps. Dishpan, not just for doing dishes.. more for holding scraps separated by color. lol

love the patten, quilt came out beautiful

Wow! That is really a fabulous quilt. I love the pewter grey and red together. It has always been one of my favorite combinations

That is soo pretty! Made me smile wide!!

Love it!! Mind if we use your pattern?

Very nice! It is amazing what a person can do with a little thought! You have a good eye for color. I like the different size squares of color in your quilt. It really adds visual interest.

wow, you did a super job in designing and making the quilt with such 'leftovers' :thumbup:

And you do it all this week??

Wow! that is awesome. An EQ6 ha!! Need to google that. I love to design my quilts also, but never could figure out the math. It me a year or more to complete a panel wall for my daughter in law. Thanks for sharing.

Of course not. That's why I posted it. The smallest squares are 1.5", the bit larger are 2.5" and the middle squares are 4.5".

EQ 6 is Electric Quilt 6. (Current version is at least 7.0)

wow what a great quilt!!!

thanks for showing pix from start to finish, I wouldn't have guessed the quilt would look so gorgeous!

Lovely quilt justflyingin the colours are so pretty it has such a girlie feel about it. All in a week wow.

Wow, what a beautiful quilt. So feminine and lovely. Love the design as well.

Love your quilt. It looks so soft and fresh with all the white fabric. Great job!

You've really done some outstanding work here. Hard to believe it made it with given scraps:) It's beautiful and love the design you created:) It's simply beautiful and THANK you for sharing.

Wow. You did an incredible job. Love it!!

You definitely won the challenge with flying colors!!!

Super looking quilt!

You did a wonderful job! Beautiful quilt, love the pattern!

Never underestimate the creativity of a quilter! Your quilt looks great!

I LOOOOOOOOOVE it !!!! great job... its beautiful...

So you cut up the fabric first, then you figured out what you could make with it? That seems backwards to me. Of could it's not really different than looking through a bin of pre cut scraps and figuring out what you can make.
Do you usually work like this? You're really good at it.
Seems like you're already pretty good at EQ.
Your quilt is beautiful. I'll bet that pattern would look good in a whole lot of color schemes.

You have done it again!!! That is beautiful Thanks for showing it.

Beautifully done! Thank you for sharing the story of this quilt and the process you used to create it.

Very pretty!! I'm a big fan of using borders as frames. You nailed it!!

Very pretty! You aced that challenge! :)

Oh my gosh, it is beautiful

Very elegant and modern. With EQ, it sometimes help to preview the quilt without the seam and block lines, which are probably what made it look like less white than it turned out. However I think the white is what makes it so wonderful.

I love the complex simplicity of it! The colors are really set off with all the white. Gorgeous!

Oh my goodness! What a great use of "scraps" and what a super pattern. You've done good!

Beautiful! So talented!

A week you say? I'm embarrassed now to say what I got done this week. This is very nicely done. I have never used an EQ but have it on my list of what I need to buy and utilize. Great job! Thanks for sharing!

Very clever and great use of scraps.