Checkerboard Quilt, finished!

I finished my Checkerboard quilt! My long arm quilter did an incredible job on the quilting, I love it so much ❤️ My grand daughters went to the park with me to help me take photographs.

The sun was beginning to go down, so there is a golden hue on this photograph.  You can see the quilting really well, it's very dense and fits the quilt perfectly!  Marti @ Lynny Lou Crafts in Gilbert, Arizona, machine quilted it.

The wind was so wild, we weren't able to get many good photos :)

I shared my quilt at our Farm Girls quilt group where we make all of our awesome Lori Holt quilts.  In a previous post, I said this quilt pattern was in Lori's Project Planner. 

When I had completed my quilt, I realized that the pattern is also in Lori's book Scrappiness is Happiness.  I didn't recognized it because it has a dark background in the book.

Something that makes this quilt so special, is that it is made entirely of my scraps.  I organize my scraps the Lori Holt way.  1 1/2" squares and strips, 2 1/2" and 3 1/2" etc.  This quilt took 1 1/2" and 2 1/2" squares and strips.  I can look at so many pieces in this quilt and remember what previous quilt I used it in, or a dress that I made one of my grand daughters or a bag that I made.

This photo shows all the different low volumes and some of the fussy cuts and the pretty low volume print that I used for the border.

This was a fun quilt to make, I didn't have to worry about which color went where, I just grabbed a piece and sewed. It would have been a good leaders and enders quilt. 

Thanks for reading my blog, I'll see you next week!