Last Saturday at Leeds MQG we had a taster of one of the workshops on offer at Festival of Quilts. The class was to make a cushion from scraps and an old shirt. The sleeves and back of the shirt are stitched with the scraps to make crumb blocks and a porthole added using reverse appliqué. The front of the shirt is then used to create a button opening cushion back.
I got the crumb blocks and porthole done on the day and so this morning I did some quick increasing spiral quilting and finished the cushion. I’m not sure if I like crumb blocks, but using an old shirt for the cushion back is a great idea if you don’t like doing buttonholes or inserting zips.