Overmuch

I was deep in the process of making scrappy grab&piece blocks when it dawned on me that my whole purpose - making a quilt top in the style of my pieced quilt backs - was not going as planned. The problem was simple. Unlike my pieced quilt backs, where I used the finite amount of scraps left over from piecing the front, I had what felt like an unlimited amount of scraps to pull from my scrap basket. It totally changed the look of the blocks, and when I realized what I'd done, it felt too late to go back. So I continued on, using as many scraps as possible, and created Overmuch.

Despite the unintentional change of plans, I enjoyed making the scrappy blocks very much, and obviously, used a good amount of scraps. For the back, then, I did do my normal thing, using leftovers from the front, as well as all the greens I could find in my scrap basket. I used several smaller-sized greens from stash to fill in, and was quite pleased with the result.

For quilting, I used Aurifil 50wt variegated 3320 [Light Spring] and did some organic straight-line quilting, which I don't think I've done for quite a while, at least not on a quilt this large, 52" x 60". Then I bound it in Kona Wasabi. I'm not sure what came over me, especially since I hand-bind my quilts 99% of the time. But I was in the mood for machine-binding, so that's what I did. The result is quite possibly, the scrappiest quilt I've ever made.

Overmuch is the 5th scrappy quilt this summer, and believe it or not, I already have scraps pressed and sorted for #6. Might as well keep going while I'm in the mood.