Quilt Finish: Scrappy Goose Quilt

Two years ago I saw the quilt below by Christa Watson and loved it!

Her quilt pattern was a freebie add-on to her book "Piece & Quilt with Precuts" and is available here. Her pattern uses small geese and some vertical sashing strips, and results in a baby-size quilt (43" x 54"). I wanted to use some of my precut scrap squares, and wanted simpler piecing, so I developed my own method or pattern.  A tutorial for my pattern is available on my Tutorials page.

Christa Watson's "Baby Geese" Quilt

  My Scrappy Goose Quilt was started in the summer of 2017 when I was still in a hard cast and on crutches after surgery on my ankle.  I was unable to stand on my bad ankle, so I cut all the background rectangles sitting on the floor of my living room, and then hopped back and forth on my one good foot to lay the blocks out on my design wall.

I got the top pieced shortly after I started it, pieced a backing for it a few months later, and then it hung in a corner for about 18 months before I decided to take it to my local long-arm quilter: Quilts by Grace.  For the backing, I pulled 10 half-yard cuts of "medium-volume" fabric from my stash and pieced them together. Over the year I've acquired several cuts of red & white prints that have too much going on in them to call them "low-volume,"  but they're too choppy to call them "blenders," and I just wasn't using them. So this backing was the perfect place to put them.

Wow is it ever a treat to have someone else quilt a quilt for me! I think that basting is my least favorite part of making a quilt - therefore a lot of quilt projects stall out once I get the top completed.  Once I had the quilt quilted, it was only a week or so before I put this cute binding on.

This quilt finished at 72" square and, as I mentioned on Instagram, I am keeping this guy for myself. For more pictures of this quilt, please check out #scrappygoosequilt.