Scrappy

One of my closest friends asked me (nearly a year ago now...) if I could make a bowl cozy and a casserole cozy for her. She asked if I could make them microwavable. She said I have to let her pay for them. (I normally would never charge her for anything I make.) And she asked me to use only what I have. She asked for browns. Good thing I have browns in my scraps!

Good thing I have all-cotton batting. Good thing I have brown cotton thread. Polyester blends would not be safe in the microwave.

I knew I had leftovers from Lizard's Stonehenge quilts, and I knew I'd used some in my nephew Matthew's quilt. But I had not looked in any of my scrap boxes for... probably years. Many years.

When I finally dug out the Stonehenge scraps last weekend, I realized I had enough to do some fancy piecing. I decided, however, to use up the smallest pieces and make both cozies totally reversible and completely different. My friend had bought a couple of bowl cozies at a farmer's market, and I had no idea what they looked like, other than they were done in browns. I thought scrappy would best blend with what she already has.

I am not at all disappointed with the four pieces of fabric I made. They could almost be a quilt!

I stay-stitched around all the edges, then preshrunk both the blocks and the all-cotton batting. I don't want the cozies to shrink and not fit their bowl and casserole dish once they've been used. Or, well, loved a lot.

Let the quilting begin!

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