More Blue Scraps

 

Rick Rack Blocks

10 inch

One 2.5 inch strip makes 2 blocks

Yankee Puzzle

9 inch

I have been trying to use up a small box of 4 inch width scraps and squares. One of the blocks I have been making using those scraps is Yankee Puzzle using the tutorial at Suzy's Scraps. Note that I am using 4 inch squares and not 3.5 inch squares used in the tutorial.

I started making these last year and made one small comfort quilt top consisting of blocks with two colors. This set consists of color plus neutral. I will make a larger comfort quilt with this set. 

Greek Keys

9 inch

Made with 1.5 inch scraps

And sew on...

Rainbow Scrap Challenge ScrapHappy Saturday

I see the RSC color for Feb. is green. I better get moving. I have a lot of green scraps and Feb. is a shorter month!

Round Two - Make It A Double

 

Orphan Block Center

Round one with 2.5 inch finished Hourglass blocks.

Round Two with borders and Double Four Patch cornerstones.

Now 28 inch square.

The round two prompt for the Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR) 2026 is "Make It A Double". I am makiing three comfort quilts using the SAHRR prompts. 

Raggedy Ann and Andy

Round One with 4 inch finished Hourglass blocks.

Round Two - Last week I used Four Patches for the cornerstones. This week I replaced the cornerstones with Double Four Patches. 

Both are 28 inches wide and 24 inches in length. 

And sew on...

Round Two Linky Party

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The Raggedy Ann and Andy Quilts will go to Wrap-A-Smile (WAS) when finished. Where the orphan block quilt will be donated depends upon the size when finished. 

 WAS partners with Rotaplast International to provide quilts for patients.  

 

Rotaplast International, Inc. is committed to helping children and families worldwide by eliminating the burden of cleft lip and/or palate, burn scarring, and other deformities. Working with local professionals, Rotarians, and other organizations, Rotaplast sends multidisciplinary medical teams to provide free reconstructive surgery, ancillary treatment, and training for the comprehensive care of these children. Rotaplast supports education and research towards prevention of cleft lip and/or palate. Our aim is to help local professionals build sustainable models for the care of these children, improving their lives and those of their families.

I just shipped off 17 quilts to WAS. For significant cost savings I use free shipping software called Pirate Ship. I just weigh and measure my box, get cost, buy and print label and drop box(es) off at UPS. 

I have donated quilts to Wrap-A-Smile since 2013 (I think) and every once in a while it is fun to spot a quilt I made in use with a child or sometimes an adult. 

I spied this Wonky Log Cabin quilt I made...

...on this patient in Nagamangala, India. 

Brown Itty Bits

18 Patch in Browns

6 inch finished

Blocks 43-61

Goal 108 for a quilt layout 9 x 12

This month the theme in my sewing room has been "itty bits, fiddly bits".  I've been accumulating brown 1.5 inch width scraps for awhile to make these blocks.  I think I started making them in 2023.  I used up all the scraps long enough in the bag to make these 18 patch blocks and then...

...I decided to use the leftover pieces in a new start. I found enough neutral pieces to go with the browns in the 1.5 inch width scrap box. 

Greek Keys

9 inch

I was thinking I would use all colors of scraps in my 1.5 inch width scrap box to make blocks to add to the browns in a quilt; however, I think I may just make one in browns because they look like cinnamon rolls to me. I will probably make a separate quilt with all colors of the rainbow and add the block to my list of Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks. 

Then with any brown scraps left over that I could cut into 1.5 x 2.5 rectangles I made 

Potato Chip Blocks

6 inch

Blocks 21-23

Goal 70 for a layout 7 x 10

Looks like I started making these blocks in all colors back in 2022 to use 1.5 inch width scraps. 

And then I cut any remaining brown scraps into 1.5 inch squares. 

 

It's a Finish! Backstories II

 

It's a finish!

Backstories II

60 x 80

It is called Backstories II because most of the pieces in this quilt came from quilt back trimmings. A few of the other pieces came from duplicate fabric strips sent to me by others. 

 Backstories I was finished in 2022. 

This top was assembled in July 2024 and you can see it's backstory in that blog post. 

I quilted it on my sewing machine with vertical lines of blue thread.  The binding consists of different blue pieces that came out of the leftover binding box. 

I pieced the backing with two blue fabrics. 

And sew on...

Finished Or Not Finished Friday at Alycia Quilts

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“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”...Victor Hugo

And Now There Are 540 Little Blocks

 

Old Italian Blocks

3 inch 

I now have met my goal of 540 blocks!! 

I started making these in 2023. 

The Old Italian blocks are a "cut and shuffle" type block- stack up 6 squares (I'm using 5 inch), make a few cuts, shuffle around the pieces and then sew together. I used a tutorial found at My Joyful Journey that includes instructions for X blocks in other sizes as well as the 3 inch. 

The theme this month in my sewing space to move UFOs forward is "itty bits, fiddly bits".  These are itty and fiddly!

And sew on...

Now some assembly required! 

And sew on...

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"Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness" ...Mark Twain.

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Finished a book! The Inconvenient Child: An Abandoned Australian Child Struggles to Survive and Find Her American Father by Sharyn Killens and Lindsay Lewis.  It is the biography of Sharyn Crystal Killens, a black child born to a white unwed mother in post WWII Australia. I like stories of survival, of people who overcome hard times and obstacles put in their way.  This is one of those stories.     I have to say that I liked the story; however, the writing was repetitive, redundant and rambling in some chapters. 

Gum Wrapper Chain Progress

 

I decided this month to work on my Gum Wrapper Chain quilt I started way back in 2022. It fits the theme "itty bits, fiddly bits" in my sewing space this month to move UFOs forward. 

 It was originally inspired by a postage stamp quilt I saw at the Q Is For Quilter blog. 

Well, I finished my first of six "panels" - 9.5  x 72 inches unfinished. 

Then I started on the other five panels that I need.  When all six panels are sewn together it will make for a quilt around 54 x 72 inches. 

And sew on...

Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

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Round One - Hourglass

Raggedy Ann/Andy

Round One with 4 inch finished Hourglass blocks.

The round one prompt for the Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR) 2026 is "Hourglass".  I am making three comfort quilts using the SAHRR prompts.

Raggedy Ann/Andy 

Round one with 4 inch finished Hourglass blocks.

Orphan Block

Round one with 2.5 inch finished Hourglass blocks.

And sew on...

SAHRR Round One Linky Party

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I'm a lucky girl! I received a box with lots of thread from Donna and a box of scraps from Nann. Oh joy! That means I get to sew with scraps and make lots more comfort quilts!

The Raggedy Ann and Andy Quilts will go to Wrap-A-Smile (WAS) when finished. Where the orphan block quilt will be donated depends upon the size when finished. 

 WAS partners with Rotaplast International to provide quilts for patients.  

 

Rotaplast International, Inc. is committed to helping children and families worldwide by eliminating the burden of cleft lip and/or palate, burn scarring, and other deformities. Working with local professionals, Rotarians, and other organizations, Rotaplast sends multidisciplinary medical teams to provide free reconstructive surgery, ancillary treatment, and training for the comprehensive care of these children. Rotaplast supports education and research towards prevention of cleft lip and/or palate. Our aim is to help local professionals build sustainable models for the care of these children, improving their lives and those of their families.