Barn Quilt with Sheep, an original design

For the past 3 summers, my girls and I have made a "scrap" quilt to enter into the Minnesota State Fair.  I have a jar of 2 inch scraps that I fill up all year, and then in the summer we get it out and start designing a quilt.  This year we had a really hard time deciding what to make -- but eventually I came up with a design that we were all happy with.  I started thinking about how to make it work on a car trip home from my parents' house, then got out the graph paper and started coloring.  And here's what we came up with:

Quilt Stats:

Made entirely from 2 inch scraps, with the exception of the Barn's Pinwheel Quilt, the Sheep's Background, and top of Silo -- over 3000 two inch scraps, yikes!

Double Bed Sized -- perfect for my sheep loving daughter's bedroom

Quilted with Aurofil thread (size 28, light gray) in a diagonal cross-hatch pattern, with extra diagonal lines added for the sheep's wool.

Binding is scrappy and matches the green grass/blue sky, using Debbie's Matched Binding Tutorial.

Winner of a 5th place ribbon in the Scrap Quilt Category at the Minnesota State Fair!
(I haven't written up a pattern for this quilt, but I certainly could if there is enough interest.)

I'm entering this quilt into the "Original Design Quilts" category of the Blogger's Quilt Festival.