This project has been my #selfishswap project for a few months now. Something I'm making totally for myself. It started as a charm pack and mini charm pack of Paradiso. I used the Layers of Charm pattern from Fat Quarter Shop.
Thing is, it ends up about 27" square, so a not-so-mini mini quilt. I've really been wanting a lap quilt, and kept looking at this to see how I could turn it into one. I needed backing fabric anyway, and when I found four 48" cuts of the dark gray on Etsy for a really good price, I jumped on it. Not my first choice for a backing fabric, but it's getting harder to find stuff from this line. Now I had tons of gray fabric, but what to do with it? I went to Joann's today, and picked up some solid white and solid salmon/coral pink (yeah, can't remember the color name now).
I kind of liked the way a smaller white border, larger salmon border, and still larger gray border look. But since I don't want it to get too wide, the gray would only be on the top and bottom. I decided to play around in EQ7 (my new/old favorite thing to do for quilt planning), and came up with an idea that also incorporates the 6 or so leftover charms and mini charms from the quilt top. (Note to self: find leftover squares). And because I don't like to waste anything, I also have 36 teeny, tiny half-square triangles left from trimming the blocks. I think I'll put those on the back somewhere. Maybe in a line or two with the salmon, between the large pieces of gray.
Or maybe get rid of the white border. A couple more ideas...
I already have some idea of how to quilt it. But that could change until I actually get this put together, since the plan itself could change. Again.
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