Quilt Block Tablecloth

By Lynn Bowen Walker

I’M what you might call a “random quilter,” meaning I don’t actually follow patterns, but instead just sort of sew on my own terms. I take pieces of fabric, squares and triangles mostly, start stitching them together, and see what happens. The scraps grow into larger squares, proliferate into a massive stack, and, eventually, get laid out on the floor, where I arrange and rearrange them until I figure out what it is I’m going to make.

I know it sounds odd, but it seems to work for me.

One day while digging around in my cabinet of craft supplies, I came across some random completed squares stuffed way in the back. I couldn’t remember making them, but there were more than 20 of them, predominantly made of fabrics salvaged from old button-down shirts my sons had outgrown or my husband had discarded.

Some of the squares I’d made into pinwheels, and some into bow ties, and they were all different sizes. I