Barbara is still stuck in the groove of looking at vintage quilts that link to our Scrappy theme and this is her latest offering. It’s an interesting US quilt dating from maybe 1890s with some earlier fabrics. The block is a C&B favourite and we refer to it as Sawtooth Star. There’s a real mix of scraps in this quilt and plenty of piecing of scraps together to make bigger scraps as you can see from some of the details below. The scrappy hand pieced blocks have been set with alternating squares of a classic “double pink” print which becomes dominant by repetition. A great example of pulling random scrappiness together into a coherent whole. Diagonal lines of machine stitching hold top and back together, edges are bound. If you feel inspired to try something similar with your own scraps you’ll find a pattern guide for this quilt over on our sister blog Meadowside Designs – look under the Heritage Quilts tab.
chris & barbara quilts 
It is another beautiful quilt and my favourite pink.