The Quilted Scarecrow
In May 2024, I began working on The Quilted Scarecrow and by August I had finished the quilt top. If you’ve been following along, you may remember the progress posts I shared along the way. (If you’d like to revisit them, just use the search icon and type “scarecrow” to see the earlier updates.)
My hope was to get this quilt on Miss Moxie before fall so it could hang proudly on my quilt wall in the living room. But, as life often goes, I had to wait for the background fabric to arrive, which delayed me. That little pause pushed the finish all the way into January 2025. While I missed displaying it for the fall of 2024, it will have its moment to shine come autumn of 2025—and I can’t wait.
As I wrote in my August post, “I know there are mistakes, but that’s what makes it one of a kind and I’m okay with my mistakes. One thing I’ve learned since I started quilting is that if I always look for perfection, I will never finish a quilt. The old saying goes, ‘finished is better than perfect,’ and that has definitely become my quilting motto.”
One of the trickiest parts of this quilt was sewing on the buttons. To keep them from showing through on the backside, each one had to be stitched carefully. Thankfully, there were only four buttons on this quilt. (Unlike another quilt of mine that has 53 buttons—a task I am absolutely not looking forward to repeating when it’s time to quilt it!)
For quilting, I used an edge-to-edge leaf design on Miss Moxie. Once I stepped back to admire the finished quilt, I found myself wishing the rake had extended into the scarecrow’s hand—it would have been such a sweet finishing touch. Still, even without that little detail, I love how this quilt turned out and I’m looking forward to seeing it on display this fall.
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| The completed top! |
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| Another view! |
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| Upclose - can see stray threads I missed...lol! |
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| The backing fabric is gorgeous! |
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| Upclose on the backing to see the quilt design! |
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| All quilts need a label! |
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| Better shot of the quilt design - leaf! |
Several shots of the quilt to see the designs upclose. Yes I know there are stray threads all over the quilt, but that's okay.
