The base of the quilt was made from a box of 2.5" cut squares. Some of these were ones I'd cut, but the box was one I'd inherited from my grandparents when my grandma died and grandpa eventually sold his house when he remarried. This quilt, although somewhat garish, is special on many levels - some of the fabrics are mine, some shout "grandma and grandpa" to me (like the hay and eggs, or the blue with the little trucks, trees, and mailboxes on it!), and it's all put together with the creativity and teamwork of Owen and Leah. Not only did they use resourcefulness in making something beautiful and useful out of a box of scraps, but when there were fabrics that didn't have enough for a full row, they adapted. Sometime this meant using that fabric for one of the shorter diagonal rows, and sometimes (like in the red row in the close up) it meant using many different red fabrics all together.
The borders for the quilt were also made from scraps, with the widths chosen purposely to use every inch of available fabric. We were excited to use the 2.5" squares themselves to make a third border, and then, since the proportions were not what we'd been hoping for, we found another fabric to widen it a bit. The backing was a piece of flannel I'd had for years, and the batting was pieces of leftover we had laying around.
Machine pieced (by me, Leah, and some by Owen), machine quilted, low-loft cotton batting.
