RSC - A finished Top

Finally, a finished top for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  These  batik cobblestone blocks were started in January 2021.  Originally I had planned another project,  only that it  didn't go ahead, so I started making Cobblestone blocks each month instead.  They had been tucked away for a while, and after I found them again last month, made some more blocks to give me the required number for a large quilt.

I had shown these blocks to my daughter and grand-daughters earlier but they all declared they didn't care for them.  Never mind, I was originally making it for myself, so I’ll keep it. 

The final cobblestone blocks.

Laying the blocks out on our bed, I arranged and rearranged them, until I was happy.  But are you ever happy?  I’m sure I could have spent a lot more time moving this one and that one.  Since I’ve discovered webbing, and I was very late in discovering this method, it is  so much easier to assemble the blocks.

With lots of batik bits and pieces of fabric hanging about, I sliced and diced and made some scrappy binding.  Making binding is always a good thing to do at this stage, I find.  Put away in my binding basket, I know it’s done, and where to find it.

Scrappy binding all made

The colours in this quilt is quite different from what I usually choose for myself, featuring teal blue, purple, various shades of cream, dark blue, a little green  and pink.  But batiks, in my mind, all seem to go together nicely.   I’m sure that most of these fabrics were purchased from Milton, of Wright’s Fabrics, Morrinsville.

Beautiful batiks

This bed quilt is much too large for me to deal with , so Ill be taking it to my commercial quilter Deborah soon, for her to work her magic on it.