Back in July, I looked at my strip scraps and realized I had an inordinate number of brown scraps, but whenever I have used brown before, it’s made a BORING quilt. Don’t want to do THAT again.
Then I saw a picture on Facebook of a quilt using brown with touches of red. Now THAT sounded interesting.
I made a few prototype blocks to see how they looked…..
And I could see there were many possibilities with this design.
Then, life got busy, and it was relegated to a UFO Box….
Now, when I got ready to work on it again, I made a whole series of videos about my excellent idea for piecing the strip sets without wasting tons of fabric.
BUT, between moving to a new phone AND to a new computer, those videos have vanished into thin air!! Actually, they are probably floating somewhere out there in the ether-world, but I can’t find them!
So, I will tell you that it was cut from strip sets….
….. and show you the finished quilt top……
I had a lot of fun moving the blocks around, trying to come up with a design I loved.
To make my “future self” happy, I went ahead and put together a simple backing…..
…using up MORE of my brown fabrics.
AND, I even made the binding….
Now it resides in an empty drawer, awaiting motivation to get it quilted…..
It was a fun project to work on because, for the most part, it was mindless sewing, and that was EXACTLY what I needed!
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