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I love a quilt that is totally made from leftovers! Not only did I get to clean something out of my sewing room, but it makes me think of the original quilt. This one started as a jelly roll quilt called "Lanterns" for the daughter of my friend Ursi in Austria. That's the original quilt below. After piecing the quilt top, I had a few strips leftover, so what am I going to do with these? Put them aside for a while and let them age like wine. Then a snow day! Grab that bin and just start sewing them together in a long strip. Cut them to a consistent length, and now sew them together on their long sides. Once that's all together, oh drat! Short a 4" piece. (See the top left corner and the dark purple). Once the top is assembled, dig in the stash for a border. I wanted something softer, but didn't have enough of anything else. Okay, I still like the red with it. |

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Here's the backing. Again, dig through the stash to find as many blue pieces as you need and then serge them together until it's big enough to work as a backing. Batting. Hmm. Let's grab this scrap and this scrap and so on, until it's all pieced together and quilted inside. |

I was going to use a different design for quilting, but Hydrangea was still on my machine after working on Michael's, and I really liked it for this quilt. Something soft, but lots of quilting to hold my seamed batting together.
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