Chinese Coin Quilt in Progress
Jun 3, 2009 Quilting
About three months ago, my quilt group exchanged 2.5″ fabric strips. We each gave away eight stacks of 25 strips 2.5″ by 22″ (the length of a fat quarter) with no duplicates in each stack. The goal was to use fabric from your stash. I’ll be honest, before I started cutting fabric, I didn’t think I had enough fabric without cutting into the “precious” fabric. Well not only did I have enough fabric, I have plenty left on my shelves. After exchanging strips, I had 200 unique strips from my fellow quilters, plus a whole bunch of strips from my own stash.
Then the hard part of the project started, deciding what to do with my strips. After lots of little sketches, I decided to make mine into a Chinese Coin Quilt with the fabric sorted by color. I spent many hours making this perfect gradation. Oh, I love sorting fabric!
I cut the strips into 5.5″ pieces and sorted into nice rows and columns.
Then the little pieces turned into a piece of art.
Side note: I took quite a few pictures of this quilt, and every last one of them has at least one cat in the picture. They each wanted to be on the quilt by themselves. They tried to chase one another off the quilt without leaving the quilt. So the quilt isn’t even done and they are already fight over it. Sigh.
Since the last picture, I added a 10″ white border. I’m pleased with the look. Now for the back. Well, I could go for the traditional whole piece back, but I think a scrap quilt needs a scrap back. I used less than half of my strips to make the quilt top. The other half will be the back of the quilt. Actually, I’m starting to think the quilt will have two fronts and no back. Pictures are forthcoming. I’m excited to share my method of keeping track of it all.
