name quilts

My sisters, Emily and Elizabeth, are both December babies. I'm horrible at giving gifts on time, so a couple weeks after Christmas they will both receive two gifts, and they can decide which one is a birthday present and which one is the Christmas present :-P

This year "present one" is quilted name wall decorations. Most of the fabric for this project admittedly came straight from the store, however I also used fabric purchased at yard sales.

Oh! and the black binding on Elizabeth's quilt was originally part of the packaging for our futon, which we got from Soaring Heart (they were used as ties to keep the futon rolled up).


Here are the scraps generated by the creation of my name quilts. Hopefully I'll be able to minimize the amount of scrappage I produce in future projects. Mainly, I want to avoid cutting pieces too big and then having to trim the seam allowances.


Fearing the accumulation of these tiny scraps, I decided to make a scrappy block right away.

I added thin strips on top of my block base either during construction (by sewing the ends of a thin strip into neighboring seams) or afterward (by sewing a seam on top of the strip)

I was worried that the right blue border (it's four strips sewn together) would fall apart because the seams were open in some areas. I decided a couple lines of thread would add some much needed stability.