Humble Abundance

As many of you know, Lori over at Humble Quilts has been  hosting a little quiltalong this past couple of weeks.  Her quiltalong features a sweet little vintage doll quilt from her collection, and her tutorials for making a reproduction of that piece.  You can see Lori's initial blog post announcing the quiltalong here,  and now Lori's linky party showing all the participating creations here!

Lori named her little quilt Abundance.   I've decided to call my rendition Humble Abundance, for a number of reasons, but let's just say the little cut-off triangle points are reason enough, lol!  Here it is in the initial stages.

While going through my bins of scraps I discovered there are very few pinks or light blues to be found!  Practically none, in fact, and most of the scraps were in ever-so-slightly-too-narrow strips.  I decided to use only fabrics from the scrap collection, and so only one fat quarter was cut into, that being the mustard colored print in the large outer triangles.  There were a number of browns and tans that seemed to compliment the mustard print so they were pressed into service as well.  My little quilt was pieced entirely on a 1950s Singer 301A, one of my favorite machines for piecing.  The 301 also did a great job attaching the binding to the quilt front, without the aid of a walking foot.  The pieced block:

And, here is the quilt after hand quilting and binding stitched down. 

I'm really looking forward to Lori's linky party next week and seeing how everyone else is creating their little Abundance!  Thanks for a great tutorial and quiltalong to Lori at Humble Quilts!

Next time I'll need to use this cute little machine for my piecing.  This is a Singer 28 from 1933, and it stitches beautifully.  A Mothers Day gift from my sweetie several years ago.