I have also found a great blog tutorial for making crumb quilts. She not only makes use of her odd size bits, but also her scrap strips. Check it out here.
Using up scraps seems to be the theme of my life right now, as a friend loaned me the book, “Slice ‘Em and Dice ‘Em Quilts” by Nancy Brennan Daniel.
Her quilts all start out with 9-patches that are then sub-cut into different shapes. It is a great book and will have to become a permanent part of my library.
There has been a wonderful discussion on the British Quilt List about “Crumb Quilts” that use all of your little bitty bits and pieces (those that I normally throw away)…..I know, I am really bad!!!!
Anyway, I got to thinking about them and googled to look for Crumb Quilt patterns. In doing so, I came across a wonderful website with a bunch of free patterns for scrap quilts. I cant wait to try some of these. Click here if you want to have a look.
I have been a member of the yahoo group, “British Quilt List” for about 2 years. I joined when we were getting ready to spend two months in Oxford and actually got to spend time with two wonderful quilters as a result. I also got to attend two meetings of the Oxford Quilt Guild and go to one of their big national shows.
Last year BQL had a bag challenge where the participants made a different bag or purse each month. Well, the last thing that I need is another tote bag or purse, so I didn’t do the 12 months of challenges.
However, this year they are doing a calendar challenge. The idea is that you print off a paper calendar and baste it to the bottom of the 12 inch piece that you have made. I am not so interested in the calendar, but thought the idea of making a small quilt each month might give me a chance to try a few new techniques.
The January quilt instructions were posted on the 1st and I was able to spend a few hours on Saturday and then finish it up on Sunday afternoon. I enjoyed making the piece by using only fabrics that were in my scrap box, and I may try to use this idea to make most of these upcoming quilts.
Technically, it is not a wonderful quilt, but was fun to make and isn’t that the point of making quilts!!!!
Well, today is the first day of “TAX SEASON” for me, so I know that the fun days of spending hours in my studio are past, but I am still hoping to get in there for at least 30 minutes each day!!! We will see how that works out this week!!!