My Very First Improv Quilt Story

My Very First Improv Quilt

This is the story of my first ever quilt. It was an improv strip quilt using the contents of a Moda Scrap Bag and an old towel for batting!

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QUILT TOP

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I also tried to partially quilt as you go by sewing the strips directly onto the large bath sheet towel I was using as a batting.

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So essentially you use some of the leftover scraps from the front to make the backing.

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I then made some scrappy improv blocks using the white cot sheet material as the main fabric and adding in bits of the strips that had been cut off to make my quilt top.

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MACHINE QUILTING

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I like the look I ended up with but I would probably try something simpler if I was going to quilt a whole quilt at once like this. I ended up alternating from strip to strip between 4 quilting designs.

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BINDING

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