This is the last finished quilt I’ve got to post while I’m on my trip for work; as this posts, I’m ideally flying back home, waving at people in the middle of the country out the window.

Not much of a thriller in terms of design and quilting, but a good holdover until I post Sunday Stash for this week (spoiler alert: I’m finishing nothing!)

This uses my Bricks tutorial and some music fabric from a guildie’s destash.

It’s a good serviceable quilt, and it comes together quickly. I’ve got just about enough squares for a second one. That’ll have to wait until I’m back in the groove after my trip.

This quilt stretched my quilting process quite a bit, but I’m really happy with how it turned out.

The piecing was relatively simple, from the leftovers of the Grand Illusion quilt (and the very last bits went into placemats!  For the quilting, I was originally thinking of doing a woodgrain pattern, but I ended up doing intentionally wobbly straight(ish) line quilting.  I’ve seen it in other modern quilts, and thought I’d give it a whirl.

Admittedly, it takes a looooong time to do - if I had stippled this, I could have knocked it out in an hour.  Straight line quilting it took about 3 hours.

It’s pretty worth it, though. I’m thinking I might want to replicate it on another quilt.

Of course it has a pieced back, too. Are you sensing a theme yet this week?

This type of quilt is a bit of a formula for me; I find a “big print” fabric I like and pull out a variety of squares from my scrap bin that coordinate.  Some of these quilts are more successful than others, and this one might suffer from a bit too much color.

At the very least, it’s cheerful!  With this sort of layout, you can lay out a 9 x 9 grid of 5″ squares so a width of the focus fabric fits on the border with cornerstones without piecing.  I had a little leftover, so I pieced in a row of 3.5″ squares as well.

And worse case, if it’s too bright, they can turn over since I like the back even more.