Chain Reaction & Mod Chevron, finished

I began the first of these quilts in June 2012 with my very first quilt shop hop. I collected fabric from the “Meadow Friends by Deb Strain” line by Moda Fabrics at  several shops along my route and was using the “Chain Reaction” pattern by Cluck.Cluck.Sew. I cut and pieced a little at a time while working on other projects. I found clearance yardage of the brown lizards sometime during that period and grabbed several yards for backing. Then last year I decided to work more diligently and get it finished. So I powered through, did the hand-quilting with a tan thread and left it for a bit.

The Bonus Quilt: I had a pile of print fabric leftover and wanted to use it up but it wasn’t quite enough for a whole quilt, or so I thought. So I looked for a pattern that would use large chunks so you can see the fabric patterns, like the previous quilt. I found a free pattern online at Generation Q Magazine Summer 2012, called “mod chevron baby quilt”. It’s made entirely from half-square triangles, with one full square. So I bought the tan polka dot, “Butterfields by Margot Languedoc” of The Pattern Basket for Henry Glass & Co. at my local quilt store and set about cutting large squares. I sewed all the HST’s in conjunction with other projects, so I would send through one after each seam I sewed for something else. I call it my bonus quilt because I already had half the fabric and I never actually “worked” on the blocks, they just came together. When it was time to sew the rows, I actually focused on the quilt. I got the hand-quilting done with a variegated green thread just before going to Oregon in March.

I made scrappy bindings for both with all the leftover print fabrics and machine sewed that on so that I could take them on the trip. I hand-sewed binding on both during our road trip, so “Chain Reaction” got a photo shoot in Depoe Bay, Oregon, but “mod chevron” got a photo shoot during some late March snow on my deck at home. I don’t consider them a real finish until the label is sewed on and when we got home I was busy with other projects and kept putting that off. Labels were sewed on late in May, so the post is up and they are both considered done!

I still have print fabric left so will need to come up with another project. The fabric stash lives on!