Candy Scraps Part Deux: Dad’s Plaid Shirts Memory Quilt

Hi, I have another memory quilt top finished. This one was made from Moda Bake Shop’s Candy Scraps quilt tutorial by Corey Yoder. I have made this quilt before and used it to create a graduation gift quilt in Iowa State University colors for our niece.

This is the start of my paper piecing the blocks. I enlarged the design from 64 blocks  to 80 blocks. When  I made the graduation quilt, somehow I managed to paperpiece and get the quilt completely quilted and bound in 12 days. It took longer to make this top but I guess I didn’t devote my entire free time to making it. I was working on the City Tiles at same time.

Here are the first16 blocks and they show how the  design will shape up. The navy is quite dark and is difficult to photograph.

This was 20 blocks together. Ugh, only a fourth of the way there. Ha.

Here are all 10 rows of 8 blocks layed out on the bed. The last row was too much for the length and wanted to fall out of the photo.

Hip Hip Hooray! Yeah!! We have a completed flimsy. It finishes 64 by 80. Some of the rows fought me with the stretchiness of the plaids. The first quilt didn’t fight me like this one did. It took lots of pins to make sure rows stayed aligned. This quilt is going to go to my husband. I intended to give him the My Guy quilt but we have decided to gift that one to Dad’s best friend from college. I guess the hardest one to finish should stay in the family. I thought we were going to  see Dad’s friend last weekend and hoped or intended to have this quilted for him as we don’t see him often. It took me way longer than I thought to finish quilting my Tribal Plus quilt and I pieced a striped backing for the My Guy quilt. During a comedy of errors, it took me 4 times to get that pieced back basted to the My Guy quilt. I have learned how to use that Kwik Klip thing to help you open and close safety pins. Why it has taken me years to own one? My Guy quilt is basted and next in line for quilting and City Tiles will be basting soon after.

Thank you for stopping by my blog. I will be linking this finish up with Crazy Mom Quilts linky party.

Happy Sewing,

Shelley