Just a little bit finished

I had fun doing Marcia's Scrappy Quilt Challenge! You still have time to make a small item to enter, it only takes a few hours and she's leaving the linky up until January 23 (scroll to the bottom of the page).   Her prize?  She's drawing for a free quilting of your piece!  Doing my little challenge quilt was really fun, I'll definitely use this pattern again! 

Yesterday I showed my fabrics and how I did the rounds, using Marcia's great denim block pattern tutorial.  I finished all my blocks and put them on the design wall to see what they looked like "on"...

I know the point of this pattern is not to have things too matchy-matchy, but I wanted to sew these together in rows, so each had to be the same height.  So I trimmed 1/2" off the middle block in the first row

then I sewed the rows together and flipped it vertically...

it was accidental, but who knows what, anyway?

Border decisions...

The border on the left would have given me a purple quilt... I didn't want that.  Now the one on the right is from the focus fabric but it makes the piece look a little "blah" to me!

this brown is a bit too dark, I think...

nah!

It's funny, but I had placed this one on the wall to see two sides at once; my first impression was that it looked a bit "Gee's Bend"

but...

it's not so bad!  It won't win any prizes, but I think it's a cute little top and I used some fabric that was just sitting in a storage tub.  I wish I could say I used "all" of any one piece but I didn't - this was made from yardage rather than scraps.  Also, I didn't over-think the layout, I just went with the first way I laid it.  

This quilt finished at 22 x 23-3/4, a nice size for a table or hallway, because my base pieces ranged from 2x2 to 3x4."  I can see how fast and easy it would be to make a larger quilt using bigger starting pieces. 

Sew forth and sew on