Showing posts with label waffles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label waffles. Show all posts

Saturday, February 14, 2026

Green Scraps


Uneven Nine Patch
7.5 inches
Made from 3.5 inch squares

Four Patch
6 inches
Made from 3.5 inch squares

Hollow Nine Patch
9 inches
Made from 3.5 inch squares

Waffles
5 inch
Made from 1.5 inch x 5.5 inch solid rectangles and 1.5 inch squares

Puss in the Corner Variation
6 inch
Made from 2 x 3.5 inch neutral rectangles and 2 inch squares
After I made blocks with green...

...I noticed I only needed 10 more blocks toward my goal of 108 blocks for a 9 x 12 (54 x 72 inch) layout. So I made more blocks with squares I had cut. 

Now I have met my goal of 108 Puss In the Corner Variation blocks! 

And sew on...

 

Saturday, January 24, 2026

More Blue Scraps

 

Bricks and Stones
2.5 x 4 inch bricks + 2.5 inch square black stones
Started last year. 

Blue is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color of the month. I have so many blue scraps (scrap=<6 inch square) and chunks (chunks=>6 inch square and <FQ) so I don't think I will get them all made into blocks this month so will probably also work on my remaining scraps along with other RSC colors.  

Waffles and Rails
For two separate comfort quilts
5 inch finished
Both made from 1.5 x 5.5 rectangles and both started last year.

I have blue scraps for other blocks cut out so maybe I will finish up a few more blocks this week before we move on to another RSC color.  The theme this month in my sewing space to move UFOs forward has been "itty bits, fiddly bits" so I've also been working on blocks in all colors with itty bits. 

And sew on...

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Waffles




Yesterday I finished fifty-one 6 inch Waffle Blocks. 

It all started because awhile ago someone gave me eleven 6 inch Waffle Blocks. 

And the other day I sorted a very large men size 13 shoebox of 1.5 inch width scraps and...

...a small box of of about the same size of 1.5 inch width scraps into different categories and widths. I'm hoping this month to greatly reduce and maybe even empty those two boxes of 1.5 inch scraps - most given to me over the last year by different folks. (Thank you, all!) I actually measure the width of most small scraps I receive. 

So, anyway, now I have bags in boxes so now I can start emptying bags. And then before you know it I'll have empty boxes! 



I just emptied a bag of long solid scraps making those 51 Waffle blocks. I cut what was not long enough for three strips for Waffles into 1.5 x 5.5 and 1.5 x 2.5 inch rectangles and 1.5 inch squares. Those will now join others of the same size. 

And now that I have 62 Waffle Blocks I decided to make a twin sized comfort quilt with either 120 or 130 blocks.  I'm now making this a Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) project. I have a litttle box of solid scrap chunks in all colors so each month will cut a 1.5 inch piece off of the scraps in the color of the month and make more blocks.  I might even empty a bag of 1.5 inch squares (postage stamps) in the process. 

And now I have emptied a bag. 

WITB (What's in the Box, Bin, Bag) is the theme in my sewing space for the month of March. I'm wondering how many boxes, bins and bags I can empty.  

I'm keeping score:

Boxes:
1- Coins

Bags:
1 - Kaleidoscope
2  - solid 1.5 inch strips for 51 Waffles

I'll also be working with yellow scraps this month because that is the March Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color. 

And I don't always follow the challenges issued by the Scrapbuster group but this month the challenge is 1.5 inch scraps. I have some of those! 

And sew on...


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REMEMBER, TREASURE, GROW, READ (my words of the year)

"I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life" - Robert Brault.

How about that! I won the same lottery!