Hi all!
Every year I like to decide on how I will deal with the old to bring in the new! Fabric that is. I always seem to have this grand idea that IF I deal with all my scraps and stash that I will feel that I can bring in all new fabrics - ya right, I know. My scraps seem to multiply over night - sigh.
Well, in the interest of dealing with my scraps I have decided on a couple more scrap patterns that I will be working on over the next little while. One I posted about yesterday - my Scrappy Trip Around the World. I made 10 blocks yesterday to see how I like it overall and I really do! What do you think?
I think this one is really going to use up a lot of my 2.5" strip bin - or at least the larger 16" chunks of fabric. What to do with the smaller one? I have a couple of ideas but nothing firm yet. ;-)
I also really needed to come up with a new leaders and enders project for my 2" square bin because it is really starting to overflow again and I wanted to do something new to me. This is what I came up with - a nice and simple hour-glass and 16-patch quilt. Easy and creates a nice secondary star pattern.
As an added bonus, I am also able to use up two very large pieces of blue and green hand-dyed looking fabrics that have been in my stash forever. I like the fabrics but they never seemed to play well with anything else - except as a backing fabric; but, I have always thought that they looked nice together. Since blue and green is one of my favorite colour combinations this seemed like a great way to use up scraps and stash - win, win!
To create this I just used my 2" squares and die cut the 6" finished (6.5" unfinished) hour-glass units (Studio die 50034, Go die 55002). You can use any technique you might want for the hour-glass units - you can die-cut, use rulers etc. in the end you will achieve the same result.
Why do I like to have my scrap projects decided and lined up? I like to use up what I have and I like to know where I am going with my scraps. Plus, I love having scrap quilts on the bed - somehow I feel better sitting on a scrap quilt rather than a planned quilt - silly I know - but hey!
So what about you? Are you planning any scrap quilts for the New Year?
3 comments:
I love both of these scrap quilts!! You GO! girl!
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Love the scrappy trip and plan to make it this year. Will be sewing Christmas quilts all year in an effort to use the stash. Keep up the good work Katrina!
I actually have my first scrappy quilt for 2014 started. It is the wonky 9-patch quilt that I recently started. You may have seen it on my blog. I am thinking I will do a second on using a "planned color" consistently for one of the two pieces used in each block. However, the rest of it will be scrappy. I make more scrappy quilts than "planned" ones.
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