Cloud quilt

I don't think of myself as a quilter but looking back over my makes and thinking about this quilt in particular, I may need to update my sewing self image.  I started this quilt in my very early days of sewing - the exuberant fabric buying stage.  In my case, that meant looking in thrift (second hand) stores to see what sheets I could repurpose into something I could sew.



Of the four fabric toppers in the quilt, two are up-cycled sheets I bought second hand (dark blue and blue flowers) and two are fabrics from my stash (again with the early and over enthusiastic purchases - black dots and pink umbrellas).  I had the squares precut for years (oophs!).  I'd like to think that I am less likely to over buy now or to buy inappropriate fabrics for the makes I want to sew - but my recent fabric a brac spending spree put paid to that idea (but snuggly flannel!!!). 



I backed the quilt with a very snuggly red and pink fleece I bought for quilts.  But really I would have been better to wait until I had a quilt top ready to go!  Its been in my stash for quite a while as a result but my little person can attest to the snuggly-ness as she enjoyed running off with it on more than one occasion!

I bound it with most of the remaining dots and machine quilted the squares.  I had originally intended to quilt the clouds on the fleece backing into the top as well but I didn't get shapes I was happy with on my first two so I unpicked and stuck with my tried and tested square method of every second square.



I'm rather pleased with the finished product and have gifted it already.  In terms of future improvements, I did ok sewing the squares together but my quilting and binding need a bit of work.  I end up with some bunches of fabric between the quilted squares and my binding suffers at the corners!  But fabric rehoused out of my home is win and the finished product is definitely usable.