Mill Goods, Useful Remnants 2023
Remnants
and fat quarters combine to create a bright colorful bonus quilt with loads
of movement.
The
8” Mill Wheel die by Blue Wren is fabulous for using up those
larger leftover pieces. I cut and sewed random color combinations,
then slapped them up on my design wall. After I laid out the blocks,
I decided to add borders. But not just plain ones!
There
was so much color already, I decided to go all out, cutting light and
dark scraps with the 4” triangle in a square die. They aligned
perfectly, and I added half triangles and a quarter circle on each
corner. The result is even better than I had planned. All piecing was done on Elizabeth, my Singer 404.
Mill
Goods is 56” square with rounded corners. I used some of my newly
acquired bolt fabric for backing and another to cut bias binding. I
quilted with light gray thread using a walking foot 1/2” from the
seams on each row, then added a ruler quilted swirl in the center of
each circle. Along the borders I used a circle ruler to make
scallops.
