Last quilts of 2025

In September I started working on a quilt with all the Hawaiian fabrics and shirts I had accumulated. My parents brought me fabric on their trip a few years ago. Some I made into a quilt that my daughter now has and the rest waited. I also had a few Hawaiian shirts that were cleared out at the end of a summer from the clothes closet. It was time to figure out how to use them. I started with 9 patch blocks, thinking I would offset them with a solid. But was a little bored with that idea. I remembered another quilt I made by cutting a 9 patch block from corner to corner--a big x-- and then reconfigured those pieces into blocks. That mixed up the variety a lot more--much scrappier!

I wanted something a little calmer for the backing and had half of what I needed. It was a fabric I had purchased in October so thankfully I was able to buy a bit more of it for the full backing. I love that the words are names of plants, so fitting for a quilt of Hawaiian prints. 

While I was waiting for the backing to arrive, I looked in the bin of Christmas fabrics I had on the shelf, most of which I purchased at the end of last year at a clearance sale at our local shop. These I cut into strips to strip piece into blocks. I stuck with a basic patchwork for them as well but strip piecing helped a little. This was a little smaller than the Hawaiian one. 

The Alexander Henry backing was also from that sale and I was able to piece it a little wider to fit the quilt top, with a few leftover blocks from the front to complete it. 

That's the last of the quilts for this year, and the last of the quilts for the next photobook I plan to make, this one for quilts from 2021-2025. It's a little tedious but so interesting to go back through and see what I made. And where (if I can remember) those quilts ended up!