Here’s one of my own.  This quilt was just for fun and for using up my scraps! Didn’t make a dent though.  It just fluffed up the pile while I was searching for the right scrap so it looks even bigger now!  Plus, I started the quilt during a retreat and the other stitchers were throwing colorful scraps my way so I actually gained a few!

Our guild meeting speaker in June talked about prairie points (PP) and had a quilt with them done like this.  I decided I’d like to try it and this quilt was a good fit for the process.  As I thought about attaching the PP’s, the light went on I realized it would be easy to attach them while it was still on the long arm. The quilting was done first.  The black strip on the front is just  a narrow border on the quilt, put on before quilting.

Here’s my PP’s prepped and ready to go.  I picked out the most colorful 2.5 inch squares from my scrap cuts and pressed into PPs. I put them in color order so I could just take one from each pile and have them mixed up on the quilt.

First step was to lay them out where I wanted them across the top.

Next, I basted them down to hold them in place. I tried to stay less than 1/4 inch from the edge of the quilt for this basting line.

Next, I stitched down what would be the binding on the back.  Determine what width you want the back binding to be, add 1/4 inch for seam, double that, fold over, press, lay on top of the basted PPs with the raw edges out (with all the other raw edges), stitch down 1/4 inch from the edge. This should cover your PP basting line.  If you want less bulk, you could keep this a single piece of fabric and leave 1/2 inch for seam and a fold over hem on the back.  If you do it that way, make sure to have it right side down for this seam line.

Do the same down the sides, rolling as you go. At the corner, the top piece was stitched all the way across. I flipped that up and started the side piece right under the top piece.

This is how it looks when it’s all stitched together and the back binding is flipped up.

Once the PPs were stitched all the way around,  I removed it from the long arm and trimmed the seams as usual being careful to not catch any PPs.  Press the back binding piece to the back, popping the PPs up as you go. Then hand stitch the back binding in place. I trimmed as much from the corners as possible, then stitched the side down then the top (this is opposite how the seams lay on the front).  In hindsight, I would make the back binding larger than that black front border so the binding would hide that line of stitching on the back.

Here’s the finished quilt (well, hand stitching was in progress as you can see the back binding was popping up), freehand quilted in light gray Superior Omni thread.