Batik Quilt Is Completed

At our fall retreat, I won a door prize that was kindly provided by Lorena. It was a basket of sewing notions and goodies, including a charm pack of batiks. Last month, I stumbled upon the charm pack in the sewing hole. I watched some YouTube videos to find inspiration to use five inch squares to make a quilt. One of them looked interesting- an inch and a half strip was cut off of each one, then the pieces were shuffled around and sewn back together. After that, a half inch was sliced off the unit to make it square. They were assembled into windmill type blocks. I didn't fancy the idea of discarding a half inch of fabric from each piece, so I contemplated a different layout that didn't have any waste. Fabric is much too expensive to be throwing it in the garbage. There was a major excavation in my batik fabric bins to find fabrics that were in the same colour family as the charm pack. The backing is muslin, but it wasn't wide enough for the quilt top. I added two rows of leftover batik segments to enlarge it. For the quilting, I tried out a free-motion woodgrain design, which I hadn't done before. The thread was Aurifil in a variegated pink/yellow/tan. I had that spool since 2012 but it never suited any of my other quilts. It worked well for this project. Now I better get busy and finish the Sasquatch quilt, it needs to be completed for our trip to the cabin in May.