Friday, October 23, 2015

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.

13 comments:

  1. This is so adorable! I have a whole box full of two inch squares saved for a project like this and this is so inspiring!

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  2. Love your quilt what a good way to use up scraps:)

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  3. What a fun quilt! Congrats on the ribbon too!

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  4. Very nice to make a quilt for your sheep loving daughter. That's a LOT of 2" squares!!!

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  5. Fun, fun, fun! And the best part is your sharing your creativity and love of quilting with your girls. Great job!

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  6. That is a wonderful quilt (and a whole lot of scraps).

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  7. Oh I love your creativity in this barn quilt! Good luck!

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  8. This is such a fun quilt, and I love the "action shots" of it flying down the road! Congratulations on the ribbon, too.

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  9. What a lovely quilt and a fun design, I love it!! Beautiful pictures too!

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  10. I just love this quilt - such a great design.

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