Well, I accomplished that goal (enough is enough) but didn't get any bonus points or a smiley face for getting them made into a top. Maybe that will happen next month.
I have also completed the crochet trim around 130 double sided squares. Woohoo...enough is enough! These were made from 4.5 inch rose themed scraps. I used up numerous spools of pink #10 crochet cotton I have had in my stash for years. Most were picked up at the thrift store. I purchased three more spools of a light pink to use to slip stitch these blocks together and to crochet a border all around.
I recently made sixteen more 16 patch blocks from 2 inch scraps. That was all I needed to reach my goal of 130 blocks. (Once again, enough is enough!) I've been making these for a couple of years from actual scraps as a Rainbow Scrap Challenge project. Since I am trying to empty all my scrap bins and have been concentrating lately on the 2 inch scrap bin I figured I would finish up blocks for this project.
Now one of these days I will randomly sew them together into a 10 x 13 layout for a quilt that measures 60 x 78.
Indian Hatchet blocks
I've been using up 5 inch 30s reproduction scraps left over from making a not yet quilted
Churn Dash quilt. I made the corners with 2.5 inch scraps.
Now I have my target goal of 252 blocks to be set 14 x 18. (Guess what! Enough is enough!) I have not trimmed those flippy corners yet but when I do they will not go to waste but be used in another quilt.
I saw
Maggie (Making a Lather) making little 6 inch finished baskets from waste triangles that she saw Suzie making so I thought I would give them a try as a possibility for those trimmed flippy corners.
They were okay but it seems most of my waste triangles come from trimming up 2.5 inch parts so it appeared that the base of the basket was a little too small.
So I tried a couple more baskets using a bigger scrap for the base and 2.5 x 4.5 inch pieces for part of the block instead of sewing together two 2.5 inch pieces. I liked these baskets a little better but it seemed like there was a lot of white space.
Next I tried making the baskets with 2 inch background pieces instead of 2.5 inch pieces. I liked those a lot better so I made a couple of little nine patches to see how they would look as an alternate block. Well, that seemed like too much white again so...
...I made a couple of Hollow Nine Patch blocks to see how they look as an alternate block. I think I've started another quilt.
