Last year I wanted to make myself a utility quilt for the car/beach but I didn't want to take the time to piece a top with nice fabric. I wanted to experiment. I was thinking about using some used twin sheets to make my quilt, so I went on ebay and found this twin duvet cover. I can't remember what I paid for the duvet cover, I think it was about $18.00. I washed the cover and I stuffed a twin Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 batt in it and pin basted it. There is space on the edges of the long ends where the batt did not quite fill the cover completely and I probably could have pieced some of the extra batting from the short end to fill that in, but I didn't want to fuss with it. I did straight line quilting on it diagonally with my walking foot on my domestic machine. After I finished quilting it, I folded in the open end of the cover and top stitched that closed. One of the best parts of this project was that I did not need to bind the finished quilt. This quilt is super heavy and really useful.
I love the madras plaid fabric (it looks like it was pieced by a quilter) on the top. The bottom is the blue strip.
