When I'm sick, my home remedy is to sit in front of the fire, watch CSI and sew. While sick over Christmas, I spent several days attempting to empty some of my scrap buckets, but to no avail. I finished a quilt, but the buckets are still full! Someone must be sneaking in here at night to refill my scrap buckets. Seriously.
Anyway, I made a scrap quilt to send to my son for his college friend. I was so efficient in this that I mailed the quilt without taking a picture of it. Here is a pic of a few leftover blocks to give you an idea of the quilt.
The quilt is all from my 1-1/2 inch scrap bucket (small bucket yields many quilts, grasshopper). The real quilt is a little more colorful -- I pulled out the duller blocks.
I've recently realized that I'm a huge fan of scrap quilts. It's almost like I sew and the desired product is SCRAPS rather than a quilt. Sick? Probably.
I made this quilt last year sometime as a sample for the local quilt shop and just recently brought it home. It's new home is in my living room and I adore it. I'm quite a fan of red (such a shock to those who have lived through my red quilt phases in the past, I'm sure).The camera is now empty of quilt photos. Off to produce more scraps.
Happy quilting!
7 comments:
Hi there -- thanks much for visiting my blog during "delurking week!"
Your quilts are gorgeous and I loved seeing photographs of them.
Happy New Year & Happy Quilting -- looking forward to seeing more of your work, soon. ;)
is your date imprint off?! :)
Hi Debby,
I think your camera may be in a time warp, lol.
I always love seeing your quilts, and I am definitely impressed by the number you've done.
Hope to get together soon.
Thanks for the info. on the Taupes... I have quite a bit from Pinwheels & will get more at Mid-Atlantic (if they are there again...) especially green - for stems and/or leaves... & a scrap pack for my tumbler charm quilt. Heck I am even considering their BOM...
Oh & I wanted to verify that while the equilter taupes are different than the pinwheels ones, they are not poor quality like somthing that would be at a discount store, right?
Hope you are feeling much better. I'm not a scrap quilter and I am always so amazed by the what scraps turn into- in the hands of talented quilters! Love that red quilt, too!
PING - I purchased the whole kit...
(I still need some green & maybe some purple - hopefully at Mid-Atlantic...)
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