Last year I made a baby quilt for a friend consisting of half-square triangles in shades of grey, blue, and green. I made a lot of HST's and then just used a portion of them to make the baby quilt. I had quilt a few left over and decided to make a twin-size quilt with them.

My favorite design element of this quilt is one that was inspired by a quilt Gwen Marston showed us when she visited our guild in February 2014. Her quilt had an inner border that used the same type of blocks as the rest of the quilt, just in soft neutral shades instead of the brights in the rest of the quilt. I decided to do the same with white and off-white HST's. I love how it turned out.

I named this quilt Leftovers Ala Gwen because most of the blocks were leftovers from another quilt, and the layout was inspired by a favorite Gwen Marston quilt. I hesitated to use the word leftovers next to my quilt heroine's name, but I decided leftovers don't have to be just lukewarm meatloaf or some other blob. Sometimes leftovers can be surprisingly delicious if they are well prepared and maybe paired with something fresh. So that's how I'm choosing to think of leftovers in this instance. The quilt measures about 81"x65", a generous twin.

On the back of this quilt I did some piecing of letters. Once again I wanted to show what could be done with the Simple Shapes Alphabet (pattern coming soon). Can't Stop Won't Stop came to mind as a fun phrase, a rap reference that has made its way into the lexicon. I don't know why it needed to be on a quilt, except that I can't stop putting words on quilts. Or quilting in general. Can't stop, won't stop until I'm too old to physically cut and sew fabric. Quilting is my life-long obsession, I feel certain. If it turns out that I stop quilting for some reason other than just physical incapability (ie I lose interest) I will be truly shocked. As things stand now, I always have ideas, I always want to make more. I can't imagine life being any different.