Monday, December 26, 2016

One Thing Leads to Another


I had been digging around in my Christmas scraps for pieces to make Christmas bags for wrapping presents but became distracted by some of the 2.5 inch scraps and so I decided to make some ornaments. 


Maybe I'll have enough ornaments made by next year for  Christmas quilt. 


I originally started out making snowballs but had some gray left over on my desk from making snowflakes so decided to add the gray at the top and turn the snowballs into ornaments. 

And that left me with some waste triangles...


I started to throw them into the waste triangle box but decided instead to use them. From now on I'm going to try to use them right away (I said try) and not add to the box.  Plus I think for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge in 2017 I'm going to try to use the waste triangles in the color of the month in a few projects. 


I turned some of them into star points on wonky star blocks that will finish at 4.5 inches. 


I have so many white waste triangles I may also make separate black/white blocks. 


But back to those waste triangles from the ornaments I just made...I also turned them into some confetti wave pieces...


...and when I get enough I'll turn them into Confetti Wave blocks. 


And I also turned those waste triangles into some butterflies on blue scraps. 


More butterflies I made in December to add to the pile. I should probably count the butterflies now. I know I have hundreds of 4 inch blocks.  About 400 of them will make a nice big quilt! 





9 comments:

gayle said...

I saw those ornaments and thought "oh, those are the cutest thing ever!"
Then I saw the little stars and thought, "oh, no, THOSE are the cutest thing ever!"
And then I saw the Confetti Waves and thought "oh, no, THOSE..."
And then I saw the butterflies...

Quiltdivajulie said...

Your ornaments are great!!! What a fun idea for a Christmas quilt. And those confetti wave blocks on red are just awesome --- I tend to toss the waste triangles but perhaps for 2017 I will change that plan.

cityquilter grace said...

i am impressed! lovely sewing projects....keep up the good work!

Grandma said...

Awesome uses!

em's scrapbag said...

I love how your scrappy play has snowballed, :)

audrey said...

Your ornament blocks are very sweet and I still just love those confetti wave blocks! Such a great background color!

Ann said...

Such cute ornaments. They will make a lovely and fun quilt. Hooray for you!

Nann said...

"I got distracted" -- and look what scrappy delights result! The ornaments are a great idea (as FB posts would say, "this is genius") -- but using the waste triangles right away? That is indeed brilliant.

Hope your week goes well, Cathy.

Cathy said...

I’ve been saving this post as “unread” just so I could comment on it, even though there has been so much quilty goodness coming from your house lately! When I was an active crazy quilter, I sorted my fancy and cotton fabrics by theme (African, Christmas, Pansy, Holiday, etc) in addition to the colors. The Christmas and African fabrics are all I have left, and it’s time to get those sorted into my regular cotton stash so I can use them. What a great idea to use Christmas scraps (duh!) to make a scrappy Christmas quilt.

Wishing you and your family the best of health and happiness in 2017.