It's A Finish! Jack and Jill

Jack and Jill

72 x 84

It's a finish! 

Tutorial at Klein Meisje Quilts

I think I cleaned out my 2.5 inch width scrap bin AND I wiped out most of the 2.5 inch squares I had in the squares box last year when I made the top.   That's a good thing! 

I also used up a bunch of different dark blue scraps.  That's another good thing! 

This is my favorite type of quilt - scrappy and with lots of fun things in those scraps. 

I quilted it on my DSM with a bright blue thread. I was not really sure what color to use. I never am. Since I had plenty of bright blue thread on hand that's what I used.  I had a bright blue fabric to use for the binding. I thought I had enough but was about six inches short so found a similar blue scrap to fill in. 

The backing is a light blue with little rabbits on it. I've had that fabric around for a long time and thought there was only a couple of yards of it for a small quilt backing. Imagine my surprise when I found it was 2.5 yards of 108 inch wide fabric! 

And sew it goes...

Finished Or Not Finished Friday at Alycia Quilts

 

Jack and Jill

Jack and Jill

It's a flimsy!

72 x 84

Inspired by Klein Meisje Quilts

I cut the 2.5 inch squares for this quilt as one of my final projects to empty my 2.5 inch width scrap bin. 

I didn't have any solids or Tone on Tones  (TOTs) of any length that would be enough for the 2.5  x 4.5 inch pieces (and I'm trying to make do and not buy fabric) so I used a lot of bits and pieces of different TOTs of dark blue that I came across when making my blue Economy Blocks (to clean up a pile of blue scraps) awhile ago. 

I've found that this type of quilt makes a nice donation quilt for someone in extended care or hospice or in the hospital. Patients and visitors of all ages have fun looking at all the different fabrics and usually have a good laugh or at least a little smile. Oh, look...there's some radishes and a flying pig. And there's some ice skates...I remember when we used to go skating at that little pond down by...

And I spy a cardinal trying to hide from me. 

I often look out my kitchen window and see a tiny bit of red in a winter wonderland of snow. 

He gives me an idea for a white (and maybe black) quilt with a wee bit of red. 

 

Scraps

I made a couple of blocks before I forget this is a new Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) project I want to make. 

It is a free pattern called Sun Print 2016. 

My layout of colors will be more mixed up than the pattern. 

I thought it would be a good way to use up some 5 inch tone on tone (TOT) squares as I go through my scraps each month. Plus someone gifted me a layer cake of TOTs a few years ago and I can cut those squares into five inch squares to use. I also have lots of black on white scraps I can use. 

And just as an FYI - this is where a lot of my skinny strings I've been working with lately come from.  The end of the b/w floral is rather wonky and less than 1. 5 inches and greater than an inch so it goes into the string box under the table. The polka dot end had 1.5 inches left so it used to go into the 1.5 inch scrap bin that I have almost emptied. I just decide what to do with 1.5 inch long scraps moving forward. I'll probably make little three inch nine patches or rails or something but for now I cut the 1.5 inch polka dot piece into squares because I have a few projects to finish up that use low volume 1.5 inch squares (postage stamps). 

I'm still working on cleaning out my 2.5 inch scrap bin and worked on blues this week.  I made a lot of nine patches. 

I had a lot of light blue long pieces so I made a binding with those. Then I have been cutting 2.5 x 3.5 pieces for a quilt like at Blue Elephant Stitches.  I'm going to make mine a little bigger so figured I needed about 800 rectangles. With these blue rectangles I exceeded that goal so looks like I'm cutting for a second one now.  I've also been cutting 2. 5 inch squares for a Jack and Jill quilt like at Klein Meisje Quilts.   Anything less than a 2.5 inch square and greater than an inch gets sewn into coin strips. That's what is in that baggie that have not been sewn together yet.  

Then for the dark blue TOTs I cut some 2.5 x 4.5 rectangles. For what? Well, I looked around and could find no background fabric of any length to use for my Jack and Jill quilt. But last month when I was working on reducing my blue scraps by making Economy Blocks it dawned on me that I probably have enough bits and pieces of dark blue tots to use as the background for Jack and Jill. 

So as I went through my blue scraps I threw pieces of dark blue TOTs into my Jack and Jill bin and will start cutting those background rectangles. With the clean out of my 2.5 inch scrap bin I do now have 757 out of 1005 squares cut. 

Every day I piece a little, cut a little, iron a little and repeat. 

Rainbow Scrap Challenge ScrapHappy Saturday