It’s all done! Here is the quilt I made with scraps from the face mask I made this past spring.

I mostly sew rectangular pleated masks so I was left with lots of scraps that were 6 inch wide and of various lengths. The scraps were too big to toss, but were destined to languish in a bin if I didn’t do something with them ASAP. Hence this quilt! You can read more about my process in this May 21, 2020 post and the post that follows.

This is a really big queen quilt. When I finished piecing this quilt, I was still knee deep in making face masks and honestly couldn’t see quilting something this large on a domestic machine. So I sent it off to the good folks at Bits ‘n Pieces Quilt Shop in Pelham, NH. I’ve rented their computerized long arm quilting machines in the past. They weren’t renting machines when the quilt was completed, but were able to start renting again a week or two later. But this time, I was happy to let them quilt this for me.

I asked them to use a kite quilting pattern. I wanted this quilt to be a happy quilt, and to rise up and spin and twirl above it’s humble, and if I’m honest, it’s sad origins.

My only specification was for the quilting design to have “more kites than clouds” but gave the staff permission to choose the design and the thread colors.

They told me that they looked around and found this awesome kite design. They used a light green thread on the top of the quilt and a beige on the back. The kites turn in all directions so there isn’t really and up and down with the design.

Bits ‘n Pieces did a great job with the quilting. The quilt came home to be trimmed and bound a few weeks ago…just before Fall arrived in New England. Perfect timing.

I’m so pleased with how this scrappy quilt turned out! It’s really a record of my pre-COVID 19 fabric stash and it makes me happy to see all the fabrics I’d collected over the years.