Design Wall Monday: National Quilting Day - Making Ends Meet

In celebration of National Quilting Day on Saturday, I joined in with Judy at Patchwork Times in making this quilt, "Making Ends Meet", she posted the tutorial for online in honor of this great day. I actually thought I'd be finished with my top by today, but...well....sometimes things just don't go as planned.

This pattern used 5 different fabrics, but I decided to take the scrappy way with this one, and used a lot of my re-purposed mens shirts that I have taken apart and saved for a quilt. I used the pinks, reds, blues, greens and creams. I omitted the yellow fabrics after I had taken this photo.

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It took longer to cute the pieces for this quilt, as you can imagine, the shirts were not all perfectly in lengths, so that added a bit of time to the process. Along with that, if you notice that blue seam ripper on my machine, I used that a lot too.....just sayin.

Here are some of the blocks in progress on my design wall.

So today....this is what is on my design wall.....I still have lots of work to do, but I have made progress over the weekend.

And here is the middle of the top now finally on the design wall on Sunday night. I still have to make the six borders and sew the whole top together. It definitely is a scrappy quilt, the photos don't really show the pinks too well, but they look a little brighter than the photo shows.

I will use the borders Judy suggested in her quilt. I will have to make the large scrappy border too, but I think that really sets the whole quilt in a positive way. I can't decide how I like how this really busy top turned out. I saw someone's quilt who was doing this challenge too and it was done in blues and turquoise colors and I fell in love with that quilt, it was beautiful. So I have had a bit of trouble getting that one out of my mind.......but this scrappy gem is growing on me.......and the best thing of all........no cost involved here....I used what I had on hand. Re-purposed fabrics sorta like the days of yesterday.

You can visit Judy and  see more great projects and see what is on great quilter's design walls across the globe. It is inspiring to say the least.