(with the caveat that I did sew a few more pieces of doll clothes today, but I gave them to someone and did not take photos.)
Poking around in the archives here will show that I do like making patchwork, but have pretty much never made a quilt (with one single straight line exception.) I have had a stash of pieced quilt tops in my closet for years; some I took a good look at it and said "It was fun to make but I am never going to finish that" and donated some to the craft thrift store. I still had the stash of pieced quilt tops, it was just a smaller stash, somewhat more aligned with my personal tastes.
A big part of the reason I hadn't finished them was because...well...batting is expensive. So, when one of the local Walmart stores remodeled somewhat recently and put two rolls of batting on clearance, I snapped those up. And then they sat in the closet. For quite a while. Kind of in the way (I had to move them every time I wanted to use a backdrop for doll photos that wasn't the painted stage backdrop.)
So, instead of realizing that I could just put them in the top of the closet where the quilt tops were, I decided that Now Is The Time To Make Quilts.
Which required finally acquiring a quilting/darning foot, which I got cheap via eBay. I absolutely do not plan to make quilting something I do regularly, so cheap is fine.
And I do understand that I will probably never do enough free motion quilting to be anywhere near good at it, but I did want to practice on something smaller first. I got into the unsorted scraps from relatively recent projects and chose a pink chambray and a green plaid, and added a thrifted floral that I didn't have a lot of
Then I cut 96 little triangles that I sewed into 48 squares that I sewed into chevrons. I loosely stitched some batting off-cuts to roughly the same size, then made and pinned the quilt sandwich with more of the floral as the backing fabric.
I moved my sewing machine to the end of my sewing table, and put the ironing board next to the table (where I normally sit) to help support the thing--it's 16" x 21" so I probably could have worked with it with the sewing machine in the normal place, but that won't be an option for anything larger so I wanted to get a feel for the new position. I still haven't figured out the best place to put the lamp, but, overall, it worked.