Scrappy Dr. Seuss Baby Quilt Flimsy

Hi, I would like to share my Scrappy Dr. Seuss baby quilt top that I have been working on this week.

This top is approximately 38 by 53 inches. I created it from leftover 2 inch strips from 20 some different Dr. Seuss prints that I originally had fat quarters of and made a quilt for a new nephew in 2011. This is my take on Sweet Jane’s Picnic In the Park quilt pattern. Her pattern uses 2.5 inch strips and I sized the finished block down from 10 inches to 8 inches by using the 2 inch strips that I had.

With careful cutting of my pieced strip segments, I was able to make 15 blocks.

I added a white border to finish off the outside of the blocks. I took my ThingOne ThingTwo fabric and cut 2 1/4 inch strips for a middle border and found a blue solid in my stash and cut 4.5 inch borders. I thought my ThingOne Thing Two fabric was longer than what it was and ended up being a bit short for the longer side borders so I improvised and used the longest strip of a coordianting red fish bowl print and cut corner rectangles.

Here is a closer look.

Or even closer to look at block details.

I have just a few pieces of these fabrics left. 2.5 inch strip segments that were left over from piecing the other quilt. I thought they were too nice to throw away and can cut them down to make stacked coins for a pieced backing for this quilt.

It has been fun reworking this prints into a new quilt top. It will be a nice playmat quilt for our new family member.

I will be linking up with Crazy Mom Quilts, and Can I Get a Whoop Whoop? and TGIFF this week.

Thanks for visiting my blog this week. Hope everyone is staying warm. It’s been quite frigid here in Iowa this week.

Happy Sewing,

Shelley