This is a 75 x 75 bed quilt made with a roll of 40 Kona cotton blue 2.5 strips and blue and white scraps that I have been saving for a long time. I found the roll of strips at Calico Cat quilt shop in Kaimuki. The strips were sewn end to end starting from the Darks to the lights. The scraps were cut into 4.5 x 8. They were sorted by lights to dark. 10 lights at the top down to 10 rows with a total of 100 scraps with the darks on the bottom.
The dark strips were paired with the lightest scraps. The lightest strips were paired with the darkest scraps. The block is a simple pattern with the strips sewn on both sides. Then the blocks were placed verticle to horizontal. I have seen this pattern in older quilts and it is a very pleasing. Some quilts have put borders around the blocks, but this one has no border. I did have to buy 1 yard of the light blue fabric to complete the last blocks. I think I bought enough to make the binding. Since this was made for Hawaii, I did not put in a batting. The backing fabric is a japanese blue with white dots. The quilting was done stitch in a ditch with dark blue aurifil thread. Most of the scraps were cut from a pack of fat quarters of Indigo. There are also some kasuri, woven ikat, batik and boro scraps. This was given to my Dad.
