I remembered that some time ago I enrolled in a class through Craftsy called Magical Jelly Roll Quilts taught by Kimbely Einmo. I figured any pattern that leant itself to using jelly rolls was bound to look good when made with a variety of scraps instead. So I looked through the lessons and patterns offered in the class and decided on Jacob's Ladder.
Ideally you want distinct value differences in your fabrics to really make a Jacob's Ladder quilt sing. But as I mentioned in a previous post, the majority of my scraps were in the bright/medium range. So once again I did the best I could with what I had to at least identify enough dark range fabrics to give my quilt some contrast. I found some dark unused 10" squares that I cut for the half square triangle units and paired those with some left over yardage of a light batik I had used as background on some other project. And it turned out that was enough to set off the brighter fabrics I used for the four patch units.
I had ordered some Fossil Fern fabric online that I intended to use as backing for this quilt But while I was waiting for it to arrive I completed my Ultimate Scrap Buster and decided to use a length of that giant piece of patchwork for the backing on my Jacob's Ladder quilt. I was a little worried that such a heavily pieced backing would cause problems when I quilted it. But I didn't have any trouble at all.
In the end, I had another scrappy beauty that I call
Trellis
