Recycled Jewels Quilt

I've been collecting shot cotton items on my trips to Goodwill and Housing Works Buy The Bag. with the idea that I'd eventually make a quilt. I'd gathered two pairs of yoga pants, a torn queen sized fitted sheet and a few other odds and ends, including a floaty Indian cotton striped skirt with a brown lining.

Fast forward to about 6 months ago when 12 triangles of shot cotton plaid turned up on the scrap pile at NYC Metro Mod Quilt Guild" and I finally cut into a cotton Indian skirt to make eye patches for a certain fox...

In a frenzy of piecing I put this top together in one night. The super simple expanding borders made it go very fast and since I had no plan it grew very organically. I had to piece several of the strips to make the sashing long enough but that's hardly noticeable since I took a lot of care to match stripes.

It's positively luminous.

Seen here with corn.

 

I kept the quilting pretty simple, concentric rectangles in the borders, but had a bit of fun in the central medallion by adding three 8-point stars. The thread color matches the fabric on the front and is consistently dark green on the back. The backing fabric was one side of a king duvet cover from Goodwill. 

The only new fabrics are Kona solids (turquoise and dark blue for the binding), the central scraps and the batting. I'm glad that I allowed the fabric to tell me what to, it dictated how the final quilt was structured and which accent colors to add. It honestly feels like the only part I played was working the sewing machine!