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Scrappy Good Time
After hanging out at Quiltville off and on since I started quilting, I've come to love many of the ideas for scrappy quilts that are shown there. I went there to read about the Scrap User's System and soon found myself clicking all over the website, reading this and that and other things! It is very addicting and fun.
Here are a couple things of my own that I've started since reading Bonnie's website:
This block was inspired by the String Quilting Primer. I used a piece of tracing paper, squared up to 8.5", as I don't seem to have a phone book in the house! (Gotta love Yahoo yellow pages) I'll be making more over time, eventually to turn into something fantastic, right?! LOL
And these random bits are (so far) four sections of "crumbs" sewn together. I just LOVE, LOVE sewing these up!
I don't particularly LIKE the quilt that is shown on the top of the crumbs webpage, but figured a block of crumbs can be turned into most anything with enough of them, right?! I keep my pieced crumb "wanna-be-blocks" actually under my sewing machine extension table, nice and handy. I can add a crumb(s) to it anytime! None of them are very big right now as I'm trying to GROW the quantity currently so the fabric crumbs, as they accumulate, can be spread among a lot of "blocks" and not just a few.
Additionally, I have a recipe box (cause that's what I could find, not optimal, but it works for now) for sewing leaders/enders. Right now they're mostly red triangles and white triangles from having made my Valentine themed table runner, but rectangles are starting to show up in there, too. This little pink box sits to my right side, right by my thread cone holder, easy to grab.
Since I've just begun (again) sewing, quilting to be exact, my fabric stash is small, and my stash of scraps is even smaller. Slow and steady for me though. I'm trying to not get too ahead of myself. (Yes, really, Mom!) I have another fabric order that should arrive this evening via UPS. It contains some specific fabrics I selected for upcoming Fat Quarter swaps as well as our 9Patch swaps. Oh, and best of all, some much needed fabrics for a quilting project I've already started. (more on that in the future!)
To wrap up this blog post, let me share just PART of the delight that welcomed me from the mail yesterday...
"But what *IS* it?" you ask?
Well, it is just PART of a nice sized baggie of FABRIC SCRAPS that Melanie sent me as a "KISS" (aka, R.A.K, aka- Happy day present)! Yesterday evening I pressed out a lot of what was in the baggie, which is what is shown in the photo above.
A stack of strings/strips,
some "stubs" (a newly coined term of my own that means... fabric the typical widths of strips, but too short to be a string and too long to be a brick.. LOL),
some bricks,
and some squares
I even separated out the Christmas scraps & the patriotic scraps
and made a little pile of what I call "kid prints"
I haven't tackled pressing/cutting/trimming up the misc. irregularly cut pieces that were in the baggie yet. It was a lot of fun. LOL-- yes, I said FUN, pressing fabric bits while in a CLOSET no less! HA! And as my husband (and Mom) knows, I HATE ironing clothes... but fabrics, not too bad.
The link sound interesting. I'm off to check it out. I have a large bag of scraps and fabrics that were my grandmothers but I've never done anything with them. Maybe this will give me some ideas.
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Thanks, Elisabeth