Last Quilt of 2025

This was not a big sewing year for me. I completed a few projects here and there, but I almost went through all of 2025 without a sewing post. Just this week I finished a quilt that was 2 years in the making. This quilt was started in November of 2023. Jeanine had a book that I was flipping through for inspiration and found this picture. It became the pattern for a scrap quilt. I made this design 4 times and then rotated the block 90 degrees for each corner. 

Block for each quadrant of finished quilt

The fabrics are a combination of things in my collection and scraps given to me. Nancy, you will probably recognize several fabrics from your collection in there. As usual, I didn't have yardage to make all of the blocks without piecing so each quadrant ended up a bit different from the other three based on what scraps I had available. 

One quadrant coming together

Working on 2 quadrants

It took until December 2, 2023 for the top to be finished. I don't get a lot of sewing done during garden season. Any time I can be outside, I'm going to go there first. 

Finished size just fits on the kitchen floor

The backing was made a year later on December 29, 2024. I used several fabrics that do not match the front, but they won't be seen when the quilt is hanging on the wall. 

Backing gets pieced

On December 31st 2024, I took the quilt top to my parents' house and mom helped me baste it on the living room floor. 

Basted with safety pins

In September of 2025, I spread the quilt out again on the kitchen floor to get ideas for quilting.

Taped to the kitchen floor

The quilting was done by hand and is a mixture of Sashiko and quilting. I used a Sashiko thread I purchased at Sew On Central and made up my own technique. There are different patterns in most of the smaller blocks and then 7 of the rectangles in each quadrant are finished with horizontal or vertical lines. At times I used the 15 inch square Q-Snap quilting frame and then for the larger rectangles I finished with the floor Q-snap frame.  

Each rectangle gets a unique quilting  pattern

The binding was sewn on with the Juki and then finished by hand. The binding fabric is from Sew On Central and I was very pleased to find some of the chartreuse color.

I did have 'help' with the binding. 

Stewie inspecting my work, Lainie taking a nap

Slow and steady

After a wash the quilt hung dry on the shower curtain rod. This morning I hung it up on the wall and I can see that it isn't hanging square. It may settle and change shape a bit, but I'm not going to worry about it. It looks great on the wall already. 

Here are a couple close-ups of the variety of quilting designs used on the rectangles.

It feels good to move this quilt from the work-in-progress pile to completion. There are so many more sewing projects that are calling my name now. Happy sewing!