Shoofly
10.5 inch finished blocks
I now have 23 blocks out of a target of 35 or 48 depending upon how many blocks I get out of a box of 4 inch width scraps.
The Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color for February is blue. I have a lot of blue scraps to use this month. I actually use scraps to make my RSC blocks and usually have blocks going for any width size scrap I come across. I have a few folks who share their scraps with me and when I receive them I usually sort them by width size if smaller scraps that are less than a fat quarter. If larger than a fat quarter they are sorted by color and put with yardage of same color. This week I worked mostly with scraps in a box of 4 inch width scraps.
Going where the scraps take me!
For the Shoofly blocks I pulled out any blue strips and then found a scrap in the box of another color. If the blue scrap was long enough it became a Shoofly background otherwise it made up the rest of the block.
Broken Dishes
7 inches finished
I now have 39 blocks. I don't have any goal in mind. I'll just wait until I've made all the blocks I can from the scraps in the 4 inch width box and when the box is empty I'll decide how to use the blocks.
Hollow Nine Patch
10.5 inch finished
No goal for blocks yet. I'll wait until 4 inch width scrap box is empty and go from there.
I cut a lot of scraps into the 4 inch squares and this baggie will go into my bin of different sized squares. Use will be determined later. This week I'm just trying to empty the box of 4 inch scraps and not put any blues or pinks back in the box.
Most of the scraps in the 4 inch width box were given to me by several different folks last year. I noticed there was a little pile of rectangles 4 x 6.5 inches so I set those aside. Then later before I cut the scraps into squares I cut what I could into 4 x 6.5 rectangles to add to the pile. Now those will get put into the bin full of baggies of different sized rectangles.
I was already saving rectangles 2 x 4 inches so cut any remaining scraps into 2 x 4s if I could. They will be added to the baggie of that size in my rectangles bin.
For now I'm just scrap processing bits and pieces - not sure what I will do with any rectangles of any size at this point but accumulate them until baggies are full.
And any 4 inch wide bits less than 2 inches and greater than about 3/4 inch gets sewn into a strip. And into the box of strips they go. Probably in the future they will become some sort of Coins quilt. But you never know!
And sew on...
4 comments:
Love how you process scraps and bag up fodder for future quilts!
Happy Saturday :-)
Great organization of your scraps. Love your shoofly blocks.
So many wonderful prints and blocks today. I love that chicken print and the cat one too, of course. I too started to cut scraps at a different size than I used to just because I was given a pile already cut at the different size. Never cut pieces at 3.5 X 2" before but I do now. Chinese coin might be in my future. Time will tell. Enjoy! ;^)
I envy you being so organized. I have sorted my small scraps by color but everything else is a mess. It's a wonder I ever get anything made. 😆
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