On Sunday, I showed you the first set of blocks in my current scrap quilt…..
Now it was time to make the alternating block…..
As with the original blocks, it was time to break down the pattern into the smallest units……
….and start piecing!
Half-square triangle patches…..
…..Two patches……
….More Two-patches…….
Some boring two-patches…..
Four patches……
Partial block units…..
….and finished blocks…..
Come back on Saturday and see the MAGIC that happens when two blocks are put together!!
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I love walking into new bathrooms in random places….such as the Toronto airport.
On our last trip, I was greeted with this wall…..
Just look at all of the block sizes and orientations and how they fit together into a cohesive design……
This may need some further exploration!!
I know….I know…. I’ll add it to my ever-growing To-Do list!!
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Yesterday, I left you with tons of 2-patches pieced…..
Now it was time to turn those into blocks!!
First, I turned some of the 2-patches into 4-patches…..
Then added some 2-patches between the 4-patches…..
….and another strip of squares down the center of the block…..
….and sew the final seam to put the blocks together…..
I laid them all out to effuse about how fast they had gone together…..
I am really happy with all of the colors in the blocks and can’t wait to see it with the alternating blocks….
Come back on Thursday to see those!!
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I have now finished the first scrap quilt that I made as part of my “Summer of the Scraps”…….
That meant that it was time to move on to the second quilt I had planned. To remind you, I started working on this quilt at my guild retreat back in May, leaving it at this stage…..
Now it was time to get down to business and do some serious scrapping!!
Following Scrapping Principle #1……
…..I took a good look at one of the two blocks……
…..and broke it down into the smallest units possible…..
Looks like it is time to start piecing two-patches.
For the first 20, I would pick out one patch from the box of scraps…..
and slowly try to find another one to go with it…..
Okay…..that looks great but it took forever to make TWO decisions.
How could I make it faster?
What if I put one stack of squares next to the scrap box…..
…and vow to ALWAYS use the one that was on top!
Then, I just have to pick one fabric from the box…..
SO much faster and easier!!
My only other rule was that, unless the two fabrics were exactly the same, I would put them together. Even these two patches…….
I had so much fun piecing these building blocks and watching them grow into a quilt top.
Come back for more!!
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One of the things that I love about scrap quilting is that, once I have made a plan, I don’t have to do ANY thinking….just sewing.
One of the things that I HATE about scrap quilting is that I don’t have to do ANY thinking….just sewing.
YES….you read that right!
So, I use that “no-thinking” time to listen to stuff…..podcasts, music, books and old sit-coms that I have seen SO many times and don’t need to watch. I can “see” the action in my mind!
This makes for a relaxing time of sewing.
In one afternoon, I pieced over 200 two-patches, ready to be added to my four-patches…..
….and enjoyed several chapters of this book…..
I love Gretchen’s writing and enjoy that she reads the books herself. This one is about habits and gave me a few good ideas as I listened.
I recently finished “All Creatures Great & Small”
I have read this book so many times that I can quote many passages verbatim, but I relished listening as Christopher Timothy (the original actor portraying James Herriot”) intoned those much loved words.
It brought back memories of Michael and I living in Australia…..in a duplex that had virtually NO heating. We would dress as warmly as we could, scramble into bed and one of us would read to the other from the book. One night we both got tickled over a certain passage and ended up laughing uproariously. I bet the neighbor who shared our wall wondered exactly WHAT was going on.
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