I Made a Quilt Out of What?!?

You know how one thing leads to another?  Here's the story of the oddest thing I ever made...

 It all started with this rug that caught my eye at Target.  The jewel tones combined with the black were so striking. 

  

The room I put the rug in had nothing else with similar colors.  Well, that's nothing that a little sewing and a little accessory shopping couldn't fix.  The room has a wonderful glider and footstool that are oh-so-comfortable, but the upholstery is a very drab and antiquated brown floral.  It needed a coverup and these washcloths that I bought but couldn't use for washing dishes (because the dye runs) were just the ticket.

I used black fleece for the sashing and the center squares.  The decorative stitching with bright-colored thread in the center squares just sort of melted into the fleece.  I guess I needed to use heavier thread or something.

For the footstool, I did raw-edge applique of fleece and cotton.

Finished product.  OK, so it's technically not a quilt, because there's only one layer.  But it looks like a quilt.  It's the oddest thing I ever made.