Earlier this year I took you through the process that I was using to get RID of my 1.5-inch scraps. Since I was doing this 10-minutes at a time during my BUSY season, I got to a point where I didn’t feel like I could spend even 10-minutes a day in my studio.
So this quilt faltered a bit!!
Here is the last post that I wrote about it…..
…..with the gist being that since I couldn’t figure out a good layout, I decided to just keep making 6 inch squares, using as many 1.5-inch scraps as possible!!
So, once I found time to be in my studio, I grabbed the green squares…..
….and started sewing.
As I have worked thru all of these scraps, I have come across a few principles that apply to Scrap Quilting…..
Consequently, I have decided to work mostly with 4-patches as I finish up this top. I am finding that they are easy to piece and work well as the base to most of my blocks.
However, I broke the 4-patch down even further and started sewing couplets (you know, two squares sewn together) and quickly had quite a chain of them…..
I lined them up on my ironing surface (still attached to each other)…..
….and gave them a good press.
Soon, I had a BUNCH of couplets ready to use!
What am I going to do with them?
Come back on tomorrow and we will keep sewing!!
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Love your green scraps. I had too many in my green stash so I created a fun quilt where they became blades of grass. Your green squares remind me of that.
What a good idea Christie. I may do that when I get to some of my larger strips!!! Thanks for the suggestion.