Legos
52 x 78
It's a top!
When I pulled my project box out the other day I found 15 blocks, a little box with 1.5 x 2.5 inch rectangles and a few rows for a block.
I wanted a quilt of 24 blocks so needed to make 9 more blocks. Each block takes 78 rectangles so I needed a total of 702 rectangles and that little box defintely did not hold enough rectangles.
So, remember a few blog posts back when I mentioned I sorted two boxes of 1.5 inch width scraps into different categories? Well, one of those "categories" was a baggie of 1.5 inch width scraps greater than a 1.5 inch square and less than a 5.5 inch width. Well, that is what I cut into 1.5 x 2.5 inch rectangles as well as some 1.5 inch squares. The baggie is now empty and I had enough pieces to make nine more Lego blocks.
It was slow going because I was using 1.5 inch width scraps in several other quilts and was always running out of rectangles for Lego blocks.
I like to give quilts with lots of small pieces and things to look at to folks in the hospital, hospice or extended care. It gives them something to look at and sometimes sparks conversations with visitors over what they see in the quilt.
WITB (What's in the Box, Bin, Bag) is the theme in my sewing space for the month of March. I'm wondering how many boxes, bins and bags I can empty.
With this quilt top I was able to empty a bag of 1.5 inch scraps and a box of Legos
I'm keeping score:
Boxes:
1- Coins
2 - Legos
Bags:
1 - Kaleidoscope
2 - solid 1.5 inch strips for 51 Waffles
3 - 1.5 inch strips for 9 Legos
I'll also be working with yellow scraps this month because that is the March Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color.
And I don't always follow the challenges issued by the Scrapbuster group but this month the challenge is 1.5 inch scraps. I have some of those!
And sew on...
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REMEMBER, TREASURE, GROW, READ (my words of the year)
Yesterday I sowed some poppies and forget-me-nots, wild strawberries and tall thimbleweeds. They are mostly surface sown and like cooler temps for germination so it is okay to winter sow those seeds. I usually winter sow in pots, milk jugs or bags but poppies don't like transplanting and I don't think the other flowers do either. And today it is snowing great big snowflakes so they will get watered in! For labels/markers so I don't forget what I sow where I buy paint stirrer sticks and write on them and then to seal them spray them with blasting freeze hairspray for a lasting "spiky cement finish".
9 comments:
Whoa!! Four years' worth of making those legos...good on you;)) It turned out beautifully. I've started to make one, but just couldn't get into that groove, i guess...hugs, Julierose
Beautiful lego quilt top!! I agree about the scrappy ones being great comfort quilts. And those paint stick markers are great. Hope your flower seeds settle in and germinate/grow heartily.
FANTASTIC! I love the result of LEGOs, I don't love doing it, but I do by dropping varied short lengths into a 1 quart baggie. When it is full, it becomes THE project.
Happy Friday :-)
I plan to start a Lego quilt one of these days! Thanks for an idea how to use that unused can of hair spray!!
Wow! Now, that's scrappy. Great idea for the plant stakes.
Wonderful collection of colorful scraps in a quilt top.
Well, we are never too old to play with legos. Love this quilt. I will probably follow suit one day when all is said and done with Friends' Favourite. Love the "sticky cement finish", lol. BTW, the package is on its way, finally. Enjoy! ;^)
Wow! What great progress you are making on your March goal. Your lego quilt is stunning!!
Great job on that Lego quilt. All of those "throw away" fabrics that are too small for anything became a quilt! I was looking at the paint sticks wondering how you were going to keep them from fading and you had the answer!
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