A Little Upcycled Gnome Christmas Quilt

This is the little quilt that I made using the fabric left from sewing up some table napkins that I talked about in my November 9, 2023 post. I ended up deleting the dark mushroom fabric. I really liked the design, but those couple block dominated the quilt. So I substituted the grey deer fabric from my stash.

I added the brightly colored strips, that which mostly aren’t colors in the blocks, to add an unexpected color pop as well as design interest.

The batting was created from leftover strips of an 80/20 mix batting used in other projects. I fused 3 strips together with quilt batting fusible tape to make a piece large enough for this quilt.

The back of the quilt is a dark green flannel with white snowflakes that has been in my stash forever. The candy cane strip binding is just the icing on the cake!

Because of its small size, I think this one is destined to be a throw for the dogs to sleep on! Lucky dogs!

The wind helping to reveal the flannel snowflake backing!

Gnome Theme Christmas Quilt from Scrapsd

I needed to make some items for our guilds boutique table. I found a set of 6 half yard cuts which was perfect for making table napkins. That left about 9 inches of yardage in the center of each of the fabrics.

As all the cuts weren’t cut exactly true, I measured all of them and found I could cut 8 1/2 inch squares. There was enough to make a small quilt! I wasn’t planning on making a Christmas quilt this year, but there it was, almost already done!

Once the squares were on the design wall, I found the dark blocks really looked out of place. So I replaced them with other fabrics. And I cut a few more blocks from my stash to make it a bit bigger.

One of my fall quilts has random brightly colored half square triangles that are so completely different from the browns and yellows of the quilt blocks. Click here to see the post about creating my “Diamond in the Forest” quilt. I call them surprise blocks! I was enjoying that quilt so much that I decided to add surprise blocks to this gnome quilt too!

Table linens and a gnome Christmas quilt from a set of half yard cuts. Who knew?