The final version of this pattern, Scrappy Canasta, is made with scrappy blocks that are foundation-pieced onto muslin squares.
Foundation-piecing onto muslin helps to keep the blocks flat and stable, even when lots of wonky scraps and seams are used. It makes the quilt a little heavier, but I think the drape is still nice and the finished quilt still crinkles nicely in the wash.
I hadn't originally fussy cut any of the center squares for this quilt, but I loved how nicely this Echino print went along with the others, so I added fussy cut animals to a few blocks.
While I pieced my blocks in a rather conventional scrappy log cabin pattern, this pattern could be used to make blocks with much wonkier, crazier piecing.
As with the other Canasta Quilts, the sashing is around each block, rather than between the blocks, which makes cutting sashing and piecing the quilt top much easier.
Print fabrics used in this quilt include (among others): Denyse Schmidt's Hope Valley, Katie Jump Rope and Flea Market Fancy, Jennifer Paganelli's Pretty Please, Kei Honeycomb Dots, and Etsuko Furuya's Echino. The blocks include scraps of Kona solids in Amber, Plum, Paprika and Blush Pink. Sashing is Kona cotton in Pale Flesh and quilting thread is a similarly-colored peachy-pink.
