Ice Floes

Quilt # 24

Ice Floes

Ice Floes is a scrap Spider Web Quilt, and one of my favourites.  I like making scrap quilts and I like the looks of them.

Before starting this quilt, I went through my scraps and anything with any amount of blue in it was fair game.

detail

One common fabric was used to start all the triangular shapes and this ended up making a ring around each circle. This stripe fabric has red and green and many other colours as well as blue. This served to connect all the blues and any other colour that showed up.

quilting

Muslin was cut using a template to make a foundation for the strips. The common fabric was used first and then blue strips were added, stitching and flipping.

Flannel was used for the back of the quilt.

back, binding, label

The quilting is stitch-in-the-ditch and stippling in the muslin areas.

A couple of muslin borders on either side of a border made up of blue strips were stitched together and mitered at the corners.

The common fabric binds the quilt.

Have a great day,

Terry

Documentation

Quilt Name: Ice Floes

Description: Scrappy and muslin quilt

Pattern: Spider Web

Size: 63” x 73”

Fabrics: Cotton and some polyester

Predominant colours: Blue, white

Construction Techniques: Stitch and flip on foundation template. Mitered corners.

Back: Blue Polar Bear & snowflake flannel

Batting: Polyester

Edge finish: Double fold french binding

Quilting: Stitch-in-the-ditch and stippling on domestic machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve:No

Label: Yes

Date completed: 1997

Quilt History:  This quilt was used as a class sample

Maker: Terry Whyte