I dug into the light and bright (and in a few instances dark) green 2.5 inch scraps this week.
I made some Dakota Farmer blocks. When I hurt my back a few months ago I went through some old magazines and found instructions to make the Dakota Farmer blocks in Bonnie Hunter’s Addicted to Scraps column in the Nov/Dec ’13 issue of Quiltmaker. But I didn't follow the instructions. I used 2.5 inch scraps instead of 2 inch per the instructions so my blocks finish at 8 instead of 6 inches.
I also made some Hourglass blocks - the final block for Block Lotto since it has come to an end. Lucky me...I won 28 of those six inch (finished) Hourglass blocks so I decided to make more for a twin sized quilt. The Hourglass and Dakota Farmer blocks are the only two blocks I'm making this year from 2.5 inch scraps.
One of my old Rainbow Scrap Challenge projects made with 2.5 inch scraps is a Plus block. I haven't worked on these in a long time. I dug out the pile of them and found that if I alternated light and dark backgrounds I only needed 10 more blocks for a small quilt 42 x 54 (7 x 9 layout). So I made 10 blocks.
And now the blocks are ready for assembly according to that secret code.
I've been working on Sprout blocks off and on evidently since March 2016 according to my blog. Since I was in the 2.5 inch scraps I decided to evaluate what I needed to start assembling these blocks. What you see above is what I needed.
So now these blocks are ready for top assembly. I'm thinking the top will end up to be 52 x 72 - a nice comfort quilt size.
I'm going to try this year to rid myself of all the scraps in the 2.5 inch scrap bin. So I'm going to cut anything left over after I make my Dakota Farmer and Hourglass blocks into 2.5 inch squares.
And if a scrap is less than a 2.5 inch square then it goes into a strip. I've been making scrappy strips in various sizes for a couple of years now so at the end of this year I think I'll have a nice (and probably huge) scrappy Chinese Coins quilt.
After I finished playing in all the light and bright green 2.5 inch scraps I picked out a couple of small chunks of green and made two Churn Dash blocks that finish at a big 13.5 inches.
