Fauve - the Flimsy

These pieces and parts were sewn together

during the week that I taught at JCCFS last fall.

Once home, I just couldn't decide how best 

to turn them into a functional and fun quilt top.

So into a project box they went - until now.

(you can read the earlier posts for Fauve

by clicking on the label at the end of this post)

All along, I've envisioned these as some sort of coins quilt.

Each column is a slightly different width

so it wasn't going to be easy to shift excess 

from one to another that was shorter.

After a long day of pondering, experimenting, 

unstitching and re-stitching sections,

and generally annoying my housemates . . . 

The vertical orientation became  horizontal.

Each row was shortened to 40 inches.

The cut offs were pieced together to make additional rows.

Strips from a well-aged black-on-black were cut

for a narrow stop border and yardage from the stash 

was chosen for the outer borders.

And then the sewing together process began.

Introducing FAUVE.

 ("vivid in color")

51" wide by 63" long

In the grand tradition of Gwen Marston's 'floor quilts'

Fauve includes leftovers from my teaching samples

as well as trimmings from demo strata.

I hope you can see why I couldn't just toss these scraps.

A couple of the light blue pieces 

include their printed selvage edges,

one with a date of 2002 which was 

2 years before I started making quilts.

(I found it on the sale rack in a local shop

from a previous year's Hancock Fabrics line 

for their annual quilt making fundraiser

in support of St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital;

and I used it in my very first comfort quilt)

I have to say that I'm pretty pleased

 with this uber-scrappy quilt top.

Maybe even a little more than pretty pleased.

And since every quilt top needs a backing . . . 

During that same week at JCCFS

DH and I took my class on an evening field trip

to the local quilt shop where I bought 2 yards

of this Ghastlies print - the colors were just 

too perfect for my scraps in the classroom.

But two yards is NOT enough for a quilt backing

so I shopped the stash and found an ancient

golden tweedy print and the last of an

Effervescent print from a previous quilt backing.

I deliberately reversed the direction of the ladies

since I want this to be a non-directional quilt.

And when the time comes,

I'll used this thread to quilt Fauve.

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Sharing this post with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

(even though it wasn't one of my named RSC projects)

The others are linking up here this week.

Quiltdivajulie

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