Scrappy Love - the Make+Believe one

I recently got to make this cute Scrappy Love quilt for a booth at Quilt Canada in Winnipeg, so now I get to share all the details here as well.

The quilt was hanging in the Quilt Source Canada booth - they asked if I would make a small quilt to help them show off one of the new fabrics lines they're distributing. They are organic solids from Make + Believe UK, and were super nice to work with.

Scrappy Love pattern

The Scrappy Love pattern is a super fun, quick pattern to make, especially if you use yardage and strip-piece the hearts. The main instructions are for using scraps, but there are also strip-piecing instructions included so if you wanted to show off a collection of fabrics, you can do so without having to cut all the small squares.

Scrappy Love comes in 5 sizes:

Baby - 34" x 45"

Small Throw - 45" x 68"

Large Throw - 56" x 80"

Twin - 69" x 90"

Double - 80" x 90"

The Scrappy Love pattern is suitable for advanced beginners as the hearts are very straightforward and easy to put together.  It includes a bit of a skill builder with the strip-piecing, and the on-point setting, since that requires sewing with some bias edges for the setting triangles.

Make + Believe organic solids

I got a gorgeous bundle of organic solids fat quarters to make the baby quilt, and decided to split them into cool and warm groups. I needed 8 colours each to make a properly scrappy heart, and there were enough colours to make that happen.

For the background I received this pretty white one white foliage print that worked really well with the solids, and was similar to the print on the lilac backing fabric.

Wavy stitch quilting design

I decided to go with my favourite wavy line quilting for this baby quilt, and used the squares from the hearts as my spacing guide, going across the diagonal on them. I love the wavy stitch pattern because it's so simple but effective. Since the machine does the wave, it can be done with a walking foot and is basically just straight-line quilting. But unlike true straight lines, you can't tell when the line isn't perfectly straight, so it makes it very beginner-friendly and accessible.

On top of that, it also adds some lovely scrunch and that crinkly look you normally only get after washing. Since this quilt wasn't being washed before going to the show, this added a cozy touch to it and helped show off the new brand of batting I also got to play with. It's called Matilda's Own and is from Australia (ask your quilt store to carry it), and was absolutely wonderful to quilt.

Scrappy faux flange binding

I've done some faux flange binding before (funny enough, also on a baby-size Scrappy Love quilt) but for this quilt I also wanted to incorporate some scrappy-ness. I was sent extra of this Ocean blue for binding, but wanted to include the warm tones as well. Making regular scrappy binding would have meant just using either the warm or the cool tones. I didn't want to mix them since I kept them separate for the hearts, too. So I thought about how I could add a little touch of scrappy-ness to the binding without making the entire binding scrappy, and landed on the idea of making just the flange scrappy. 

It was surprisingly easy to do, since the strips for the flange are sewn together into one long strip first before being joined to the binding fabric, so there was no fussing with matching up seams or anything. 

I wrote a tutorial for faux flange binding when I made the last Scrappy Love baby quilt, so if you want to try out the scrappy flange, just follow that tutorial but substitute a scrappy strip for the flange strip. That's all there is to it :-)

I love how this turned out, and it's adding just a little bit of scrappy to the binding without overpowering it.