April's Yellow Table Scrap Challenge

Hi! This is just a quick post so that I can participate in the April Table Scraps Challenge. 😊 If you're looking for this week's Free Motion Mavericks' post, I published it on Tuesday, in time for the April One Monthly Goal (OMG) deadline. Yes....I may need to plan better next month!

Sweet Yellow Cuddle Quilt

Yesterday, I started playing with yellowish scraps but had no idea what I was making (as usual...as my daughter mentioned!) I'd be insulted, but she's correct 😀 

Yellow Cuddle Quilt 

I wanted to make a few different improv blocks with my scraps. So these became a rail fence and a nine patch. I made quick borders for two 3" squares and that was the improv part which I bordered with very yellow fabric. Now what?

Improv blocks in the cuddle quilt

I took out my yellow fabric bin and found two lovely pieces of fabric to use for the rest of the quilt. The first was a yellow fabric with small spirals and the other one was a lovely multicoloured Kaffe Fassett fabric with yellow in it.

Kaffe Fassett and yellow spirals fabrics

As you can probably tell, I took very few pictures during the make. It was all about getting it done!

Here is the back, also pieced.

Back of the cuddle quilt - you can see the quilting 😊

FMQ the Cuddle Quilt

I started by FMQ feathers around the yellow borders of the improv section.

FMQ the feathers around the improv block

An apple in the fruit block

FMQ a sail boat

FMQ house, trees and car, as seen from the back

FMQ pencils and hearts as seen from the back

I FMQ leaves in the binding and had a great time FMQ the Kaffe Fassett fabric 😍.

FMQ meandering flowers in the swirls block

April's Yellow Table Scraps Finish!

April's Yellow Table Scraps Finish - a cuddle quilt

What I learned

• I can make and quilt a scrappy cuddle quilt in a day and a half!
• I really had no idea where I was headed for this piece but I'm glad that making a cuddle quilt is an option for a quick finish. I'll be dropping it off a the Community Projects table at our guild meeting in May.
• I loved FMQ the Kaffe Fassett fabric since it was all about following the fabric lines - my favourite FMQ technique!
• I also learned that a 2" wide binding is not wide enough for a double binding! I ended up using it because I only had a little bit of that flannel fabric. I knew that it would be tight but it was the perfect finish.
• I stitched the binding from the front and then finished it from the back with machine stitching. 
• Ironing the binding before stitching it on by the back helped. 
• The binding came out ok because I used some very yellow thread that more-or-less blends in, but I would rather not do that again!

Related links

• My last cuddle quilt
• Irish Chain - Project Quilting, Challenge 6 of Season 15, March 24, 2024
• Scrappy Play on Free Motion Mavericks, March 21, 2024

Linking parties

I'll be linking up to many fun linking parties, including the April Table Scraps Challenge link up. Sew & Tell, Midweek Makers, Put your foot down, Needle & Thread Thursday, Off The Wall Friday, Patchwork & Quilts, 15 Minutes to Stitch 2024, Oh Scrap!, 

Project details

Yellow Cuddle Quilt

Made for the CTQG' Community Projects for the Intensive Care Neo-Natal or Post-Partum Units

Size: 22" x 22"

Material: commercial cotton

Technique: scrappy improv piecing, free motion quilted