Red and White Bits and Pieces

Red and White Bits and Pieces 

It's a flimsy! 

42 x 63

Last year while I was sorting through the crumb boxes I came across lots of red and white HSTs in a variety of sizes. Most were wonky so that's why they were in the crumb boxes. Some were bonus HSTs. Some were waste triangles still matched up with a white waste triangle.  

I made most of the other colors of HSTs into blocks last year that are now orphans waiting for a quilt.  But there were so many red and white bits and pieces that I put them aside to make into a quilt this year when the Rainbow Scrap Challenge color of the month is red.  This is the month. 

I sorted by size and then sewed them together into columns keeping in mind that I wanted a quilt at least 40 inches wide. 

Then I added some red tone on tone scrap chunks to the bottom of each column. I added red first because I had fewer red scraps than white. 

I then measured each column with the addition of the red and added a white scrap to the top of the column keeping in mind that I wanted the quilt to be at least 60 inches long.  

And that's the story of how this flimsy came to be. 

Rainbow Scrap Challenge ScrapHappy Saturday