Pantry Jars Quilt {Sorted}

Merry Christmas, Quilters! I am working in the hospital today, but I'm off this week. I hope you're all having a fun holiday. 

I thought I'd do a bonus post today to show a personal quilt I made recently. I like to listen to a lot of YouTube while I sew and over the summer I got into a food channel called Sorted. 

So I did what any reasonable person would do and made them a quilt! (You know what it's like when the inspiration bug bites.) I decided on pantry jars, which is a design I've never made before. 

I looked at a lot of quilts as inspiration and had fun adding elements like these books with funny titles from selvedges and the spice bottles and wine.

I also did several larger containers of fruit and veg in crates/boxes/bowls. I just stabilized those and then did raw edge applique.

I quilted wood grain on the shelves and the crates and stitch-in-the-ditch around the jars, and then stipple in the background.

To my surprise and delight the guys actually opened my quilts during a segment on their Christmas live show! The entire show is behind a paywall, but you can see most of their reaction here. 

I'm tickled by how excited they got about the backing. I bought 2 yards of a novelty food print and then pieced the rest from scraps. I guess all quilts are, by definition, two-sided? 

There's nothing more gratifying as a quilter than seeing something you made be appreciated and used in the spirit it was gifted.  Merry Christmas, everyone!

PS: the Covered in Love block drives will be back in January, so keep an eye out for that post in about a week.