slopes quilt

Welcome to day 3 of the No Scrap Left Behind blog tour. Thanks for following along and for all the kind comments this week. I appreciate each one! Today, Sandi Hazlewood is sharing a project she made from her low volume scraps, inspired by the slopes quilt. I had the chance to visit with Sandi via Skype last fall when I was a guest on her podcast. She was so easy to talk to.... I quickly felt like we had known each other for a long time. I had the chance to meet her in real life at Quilt Con in February. I got to give her a big hug and hand her a purple pincushion. (She loves purple!) It was a lot of fun! I hope you go check out her beautiful project here and enter the giveaway.

You probably know that I'm not a fan of purple, but this quilt includes quite a bit of it. (And I still like it. Haha!)

This quilt doesn't have any deep inspiration behind it, I made it simply because my solids scrap bin was FULL. (And it's a pretty big bin....)

This is a string quilt, which means that it uses up a lot of scraps. I actually saw a noticeable dent in the scrap bin after making this quilt. Success! I added one row of small scrappy bits near the top, just because I love tiny pieces! I love that detail of the quilt.

My friend Tara gifted this lovely box of Anna Maria Horner threads many years ago. I always felt like the threads were "too good to use", so I used them very sparingly. When I realized that the they matched my quilt to a T, I knew I HAD to hand quilt it. I'm so glad I did! It was relaxing to sit down and hand quilt after sitting at the sewing machine for several hours each day.

Plus, the texture of a hand-quilted quilt is hard to beat!

 

I've had some questions about my upcoming events, so I thought I would mention a bit about that today, too.

Check out my website to see where I will visiting throughout the rest of this year. In a few weeks, I will be giving a keynote speech and teaching a class at the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts in Cedarburg. You can read more about it and sign up here, if you are so inclined. It would be great to meet you if you are in the area!