Amid a tedious project at work, I mapped out our logo for a wall hanging/coffee table cover. Our logo is white and blue, so I had fun pulling blues from my stash in a range of tones to help the white pop. This is a rare project where I did a double border, too. I used 2.5-inch squares throughout, with a 1-inch inner border (after seams, it became a half-inch) and 1.5-inch outer border (after the inner seam, it became 1.25 inches).

I’m pretty pleased with the result. The batting is puffy polyester batting; the backing is a random blue in a totally different shade, but since it was the backing, I wasn’t too concerned with the matching. I didn’t do any quilting to keep it all simple. All told, this took about 4 hours, from sketching to cutting to piecing and completing. The toughest part was scattering the blues enough since I only used 4 shades of blue. You can see one spot where I ended up with two squares of the same pattern next to each other.

It felt so good to have a simple project I could out together in a few hours! I’ve missed my regular sewing time and my backlog of projects!