Saturday, August 25, 2012

Superhero Squares - Finished!

I love a quilt that takes just about a week to put together, start to finish. Probably because I have Quilting ADD and I lose interest in a project after that!


This is a donation quilt, for Wrapped in Hope. The kid requested Marvel heroes, red and black. So that's what I did! The squares are 10" finished and the sashings are 1" each, with an overall size of about 60x48".

I didn't use a pattern - and I actually wanted to have the double sashing on the outside edges, too, but I ran out of fabric. Which is probably why you should use a pattern and not guess!

I quilted it with my trademarked* triple diagonal lines through the blocks, with red thread in the black four-patches and black thread through the red ones.

{*not actually trademarked}

The backing is red minkee; the binding is a red dot from my stash. 

The grass is dead...but I shot these few pictures in between thunderstorms, so there may be hope for my lawn.

The solids are Kona black and cardinal. Both of the superhero prints came from Joann's.

4 comments:

  1. Looks fab - and yay it is finished!! Thank you for linking up to TGIFF this week over at www.craftyshenanigans.blogspot.co.uk!

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  2. It looks awesome. I bet the receiver will be so happy to have it.

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  3. Looks great. I'm sure he's going to love it. Probably look at it thinking "this is exactly what I wanted" :)

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  4. Awesome it was so quick - that's really enjoyable once in a while!

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