Scraps

I made a couple of blocks before I forget this is a new Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) project I want to make. 

It is a free pattern called Sun Print 2016. 

My layout of colors will be more mixed up than the pattern. 

I thought it would be a good way to use up some 5 inch tone on tone (TOT) squares as I go through my scraps each month. Plus someone gifted me a layer cake of TOTs a few years ago and I can cut those squares into five inch squares to use. I also have lots of black on white scraps I can use. 

And just as an FYI - this is where a lot of my skinny strings I've been working with lately come from.  The end of the b/w floral is rather wonky and less than 1. 5 inches and greater than an inch so it goes into the string box under the table. The polka dot end had 1.5 inches left so it used to go into the 1.5 inch scrap bin that I have almost emptied. I just decide what to do with 1.5 inch long scraps moving forward. I'll probably make little three inch nine patches or rails or something but for now I cut the 1.5 inch polka dot piece into squares because I have a few projects to finish up that use low volume 1.5 inch squares (postage stamps). 

I'm still working on cleaning out my 2.5 inch scrap bin and worked on blues this week.  I made a lot of nine patches. 

I had a lot of light blue long pieces so I made a binding with those. Then I have been cutting 2.5 x 3.5 pieces for a quilt like at Blue Elephant Stitches.  I'm going to make mine a little bigger so figured I needed about 800 rectangles. With these blue rectangles I exceeded that goal so looks like I'm cutting for a second one now.  I've also been cutting 2. 5 inch squares for a Jack and Jill quilt like at Klein Meisje Quilts.   Anything less than a 2.5 inch square and greater than an inch gets sewn into coin strips. That's what is in that baggie that have not been sewn together yet.  

Then for the dark blue TOTs I cut some 2.5 x 4.5 rectangles. For what? Well, I looked around and could find no background fabric of any length to use for my Jack and Jill quilt. But last month when I was working on reducing my blue scraps by making Economy Blocks it dawned on me that I probably have enough bits and pieces of dark blue tots to use as the background for Jack and Jill. 

So as I went through my blue scraps I threw pieces of dark blue TOTs into my Jack and Jill bin and will start cutting those background rectangles. With the clean out of my 2.5 inch scrap bin I do now have 757 out of 1005 squares cut. 

Every day I piece a little, cut a little, iron a little and repeat. 

Rainbow Scrap Challenge ScrapHappy Saturday