I have been loving all the coin quilts that everyone’s been making over the last couple of years and I also like the wonky trend too. But I haven’t seen a wonky coin quilt yet. I have decided to fix this. I pulled a bunch of bright vintage linens and some coordinating Kona solids and cut them into thin (41/2) medium (6) and thick (71/2) strips that were about 15 inches long. I then cut up a white sheet into pieces that were 15 long and varying widths. The ultimate idea here is that there I have pieces like this:
Three different “blocks” each roughly 12X15 inches and with varying widths of the colored linens down the middle. Next, I took each “block” and cut it up completely randomly like so:
Don't forget to clean up the end bits!
So do this with all the “blocks” you made and you get this:
To arrange my coin stacks I needed a guide so that even though they are wonky, the stacks will remain in a straight line. I taped down two pieces of yarn 10 inches apart on a sheet like this:
Now I can lay down my strips ( which are about 12 inches long) across the guides and build my stacks.
I continued adding strips of coins together until I got the length I wanted. Then I trimmed the edges of each stack and sewed the stacks together. I kept the quilt itself pretty simple because I felt the the wonky/crazy of the stacks was enough going on.
I really like this quilt, it is super happy and bright and fun.
For the back, I made some wonky log cabin blocks out of the extra linens.
This quilt was really fun to make and I like how random and deconstructed it is. I hope you like it too! I had a TON of coin strips left over and I made a completely different quilt from the one shown here. More on that later in the week….
