It's a Top!

It's a top!

42 x 60

SIS (Square in Square) #2 of 4

Happy SIS?

I Spy SIS?

For a couple of years one of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) projects was Square in Square (SIS) blocks (aka Little Chips and Economy Blocks). I used 2.5 inch scraps for the centers and a black and white 2.5 inch squares cut on the diagonals for the sides and ended up with a 3 inch finished block. Well, after a couple of years of making those I ended up with a little over 300 SIS blocks.   So I divided the blocks up into a few piles and decided I could make 4 different quilts with them - four for kiddos and one for an adult. 

SIS #1 is finished and used SIS blocks alternating with squares. 

For this quilt I picked out mostly the I Spy type SIS blocks and then used them as the centers of Happy Blocks. 

I added the borders and made the Happy Blocks each month with scraps in the RSC color of the month. 

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

 

SIS #1 of 4 - Square in Square (SIS) and Square

It's a finish!

42 x 54

SIS #1 of 4

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Square in Square (SIS) and Square

For a couple of years one of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) projects was Square in Square (SIS) blocks (aka Little Chips and Economy Blocks). I used 2.5 inch scraps for the centers and a black and white 2.5 inch squares cut on the diagonals for the sides and ended up with a 3 inch finished block. Well, after a couple of years of making those I ended up with a little over 300 SIS blocks.   So I divided the blocks up into a few piles and decided I could make 4 different quilts with them - four for kiddos and one for an adult. 

For this quilt I alternated the 3.5 inch (unfinished) SIS blocks with 3.5 inch squares. I have a bin of different sized squares that are the result of scrap processing. The SIS blocks and squares I used in this one are mostly solids, geometrics, plaids, stripes and dots. I sewed blocks together randomly. 

I quilted it on the diagonals through the squares. 

The backing is a green stripe and the binding is a green dot. 

I finished this and another small quilt a couple of weeks ago but didn't get around to getting them washed up for their glamour shots before hubby went into hospital.  Laundry is not a speedy process around here. You know me...this old fashioned girl's washer is two big tubs with a wringer in between. In good weather my dryer is a clothesline, the wind and/or sunshine and in bad weather it is sometimes a couple of drying racks and sometimes (not often) a very old dryer.  SIS finally got cleaned up and had glamour shots yesterday. 

And sew on...

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