Chartreuse Wall Hanging

 It started out with a chartreuse and lime green color palette. Then, it expanded to some blue greens and a few yellow greens, but there are only a couple spots of errant pink or orange. The fabrics are a mix of a couple jelly rolls, some quarter yard pieces, and some flour sack scraps. There is a good mix of old and new all playing nicely together.

Jelly rolls, scraps, fat quarters

There were even a few pieces salvaged from the backing to my lime-teal quilt from last year. Stewie gave that fabric the old nap test and when it passed he approved the polka-dot fabric addition for this quilt.

Fabric must be comfy for napping

Cutting and laying out blocks took a couple days. Yes, the pieces are small, but you need so many of them even for a small quilt.

I ended up creating five different types of blocks 

Forty-nine blocks in total

Basting this quilt was a quick task. It was small enough to fit on the dining room table and I just rotated sitting in chairs around the table until the basting was completed on all sides.

Found a piece of scrap batting

The quilting pattern was decided at a session of Loose Ends. There are five types of blocks in this quilt and each one got its own quilting design. The last one to be chosen was the pattern for the the solid blocks and those ended being the only circles in the quilt. All of the quilted straight lines and diamonds were free handed, but the circles were traced from the bottom of a cup.

Lines, diamonds, and circles - oh my

The quilt was in my 12"x 12'' Q-snap frame for about a week and I worked on it in the evenings before bed. The binding was made and sewn on using my Viking 21. This teal beauty fit right into the color scheme of the quilt.

Binding made with scraps

Sewing binding on to quilt

Binding on, edges trimmed

The binding was finished by hand in one evening. Here is a picture of the front and the back of the quilt before it got washed.

The circles do jump out to the viewer

The random pattern on the back is exactly what I wanted

After a wash and then laying flat to dry, the quilt was ready to photograph.

Shadows and quilting add plenty of texture

Not in direct sun

Lilacs ready to bloom