Project Quilting time again.  The time of year where I get so many quilts finished!! This year, Kim with Persimon Dreams posted a new Scrap Challenge that started a week before.  What she didn’t know was that it fit the first weeks theme!! The block for January for the Challenge is the “Nine patch” and Week ones challenge is “Notably Numeric”.

   
     So I decided to combine them with the block made of “nines” and done number fabric! When the scrap challenge came out,  I pulled out a book I recently bought called “Irish Chain Quilts, Contemporary Twists on a Classic Design” by Melissa Corey.  Then the weekly challenge came out and I knew exactly the quilt I wanted use. “Charm Bracelet”

     It’s a fairly quick quilt with a modern spin. Nine patches are cut at an angle and bordered.

     One of my biggest goals this year is using up my scrap stash! My stash somehow keeps growing as people give me theirs. I somehow can’t throw them away!!  I pulled out my scrap precut squares and my large bucket of scraps.  Then I dug thru my fat quarter bin to find the white number fabric quarter.  My quilt plan was quickly developing!

     The blocks went together quickly.  Cutting scraps into blocks and border pieces took the longest.

     I made 30 blocks total, even though the original pattern called for 16.  I actually followed the directions to the T for the first time. So I guess, increasing the size what how I made it my own! Lol! I just needed it big enough to fit both challenges!

     The backing is actually an old sheet from some linens that were given to me.  Binding is some fabric that I just couldn’t grow to like. Actually, the only yardage put into the entire quilt!

     The quilting is a pattern called Smoky Circles.  It’s part of the designs I am working thru in a free motion quilting class. I decided when I started the class that I would try to work thru each design as an entire piece.  Well, hours later, it’s done!! My quilting sure does improve by the end!