Here is the completed “Bowtie” quilt from the book, Just One Charm Pack Quilts. The quilting is really simple. I quilted the grid of squares and then quilted the diagonal lines of the triangular pieces in the blocks. It has a polyester batting so this modest amount of quilting will allow the quilt to be light and a bit puffy.

What’s on the back? That’s were this story gets interesting. Years ago…and I mean years, maybe 10-15!, I purchased a cheater*quilt fabric. The problem was, the blocks in the cheater print are only one inch square! That is way too small to use as blocks to practice quilting. Might have made a quilt for a tiny doll. But I had two yards of it. So, despite the fact that I liked the bold colors and the design, it languished in the bottom of a bin of stash fabrics.

Hunting around for a backing for this quilt, I saw this fabric in the bin and realized it echoed the colors and character of this quilt. This old friend was suddenly the perfect backing for my new quilt. What do you think?

*The design of quilt fabrics is a completed quilt top printed on the fabric.

Here is “Field Puzzle”, a cheater quilt fabric to which I added blocks, making it more of my own. And “Storybook Houses”, a panel I designed, which makes a fun which that would have been really challenging to piece.