First Ride Flannel Quilt

 Today I've got a flannel rag quilt finish to share.

Yes, it's July. Yes, it's hot. Yes, a flannel quilt in summer makes no sense. Yes, that's how I roll. 😉

However, we DO live in the mountains and our mornings have hovered at 57-60 degrees and I love nothing more than greeting the day out on the deck and a flannel quilt is good company on a crisp mountain morning

This quilt is part of my flannel bin project that I posted about HERE

It finishes at 70"x80"

This cowboy print has been in my stash for at least 15 years

Just a humble rag quilt

But I'm fairly certain it's going to be reached for often in the years to come

And those are always they very best kind.

Farmhouse Flannels Quilt

 When I made my list of quilts I hoped to finish this year, this quilt wasn't even on it. I guess I just forgot to add it so I'll just call it a bonus quilt. 😉

A few years ago, I stopped at Front Porch Quilts in Benjamin, Texas and one of the things I bought was this Layer Cake

I loved that little quilt shop, but we ran into the owner at a quilt show in Dimmit last month and she said she closed the shop in January. Her business partner had some health issues and the shop was just too much for her to handle on her own. Plus she had a really good cash offer from the county as they wanted it for a county building. 😞 I didn't pass through there often, but when I did, I left a lot of money there!

These fabrics are SO soft! When the 2nd coordinating collection hit store shelves, I waited for a sale and bought a companion Layer Cake and then they sat. And waited. 

For inspiration. When this quilt popped up in my Pinterest roll, I knew it was the one:

I loved the simplicity and the fact that it leaves the fabrics big enough to enjoy the prints.  I also like that there is no waste although I think there were 2 pieces I didn't use because I didn't need the extra blocks for my setting. According to my records, I started this quilt in April of last year. I couldn't find any pattern information, but if anyone knows of any, please let me know and I'll edit to include that information here. I don't want to infringe on any copywrite, but I made mine without a pattern. It was easy enough to figure out - I simply cut 2 strips :

                           

Then I stacked them and moved the bottom fabric in the second stack to the top:

Then it was time to just sew and in no time, I had a stack of blocks and then a top. I am always in need of rustic, masculine quilts and these classic, neutral colors, are perfect

It sat again until I found this flannel on sale for the back (I had my heart set on a plaid) at a vender at a quilt show and I added this print for the binding:

Jackie and her daughter, Sandy, chose the perfect quilting pattern...again...it's called Mesa

It's 70" x 84" and as I sat and worked on the binding in the evenings, DH kept asking, "You're not giving that one away, are you?"

We don't have a flannel quilt, but now we do! 

😉Alas, it'll be a good 6 months before we're ready for flannel around here, but you can bet we'll be grabbing it first chance we get!