Many Trips Around the World Quilt - Work in Progress

Many Trips Around the World Quilt
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It's back to basics this week. Squares, Squares, and more squares. I do love traditional quilt design, simple patchwork, and working from stash, so this Many Trips Around the World Quilt design suits me perfectly! It also is an extension on my previous quilt (and quilt pattern) - The Scrappy Day Trip Quilt - this time adding an extra trip for each block.

This Many Trips Around the World Quilt design is a great scrap buster project and represents hours of cutting, puzzling, and sewing together a whole bunch of patchwork pieces. Having said that, I am always determined to find the easiest way to put together a quilt; to simplify the process and at the same to ensure that when it comes to sewing the quilt top together that all the seams nest. 

So I revisited my Scrappy Day Trip Quilt Pattern - which is a block based design with strip pieced sections - and I reworked it for the extra trip - or round of squares - around the center square. This allowed me to work on just one block at a time; cutting fabric, strip piecing and sewing together each block as far as was possible. Once all 50 blocks were ready - plus a whole bunch of half blocks to fill the edges - I could arrange and re-arrange the blocks until I was happy with the layout, and then sew together the quilt top in rows.

Mind you, it was still a bit of a puzzle, and sewing together the quilt top required my careful attention to ensure that all the pieces ended up in the right place. I can look at this quilt top now and say how fun it was to make, but at the time of sewing my inner voice demanded to know why the small pieces, and why so many!!  Of course, when all the quilt blocks are laid out on the floor, and the quilt top is ready to be sewn together, there's no stopping until it is done.

QUILT DETAILS

Many trips Around the World Quilt

Quilt top measures 49 inches x 61 inches.

49 rows of 39 squares.
Each finished square measures 1.25" x 1.25".

Total number of squares: 1911.

Fabric Used:

Approx 100 different small scale prints including

many stash basics - dots, stripes, checks, gingham.

Solid Fabric: Robert Kaufman Kona Cotton in White

I love this scrappy and colorful quilt top, and all the time spent carefully choosing fabrics, cutting, and piecing has been worth it. I have a feeling that there may be more Many Trips Quilts in my future.

Although I am not so much looking forward to basting the quilt top, I cannot wait to start quilting it!

Thank you for stopping by and scrolling through the many photos!
Rita

RELEVANT LINKS:
Scrappy Day Trip Quilt and Quilt Pattern 
Many Trips Around the World - the Finished Quilt
More RPQ Scrap Quilts:
Scrappy Trip Along Quilt - January 2013
Philadelphia Pavement Quilt - October 2013
Single Irish Chain Quilt - October 2015
Giant Granny Square Quilt - May 2016

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