The Power of Scraps

Last year, I gathered these green scraps/crumbs,

stitched them together willy-nilly,

and trimmed them into 3.5" strips.

Why?

I was going to use them for the centers

of another X Marks the Block quilt.

(see link in my sidebar for Teresa's tutorial)

Earlier this year,

I decided that I would use the scrappy strips

to make a set of six springtime placemats.

Except that when the six slabs were pieced together,

I decided I didn't want to make another set of placemats.

And so the slabs sat and waited

while I pondered.

With a vague idea in the back of my mind,

I trimmed the six slabs into 8.5" strips.

Hmmm . . . 

Not enough to do what I could see in my head.

So . . . 

I gathered the rest of the green scraps/crumbs from my stash,

including trimmings saved from various die cutting efforts,

stitched them all together willy-nilly,

and trimmed the resulting strata into 8.5" strips.

Then I pieced the two groups of 8.5" strips together.

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Now there are seven 8.5" rows on the design wall.

Each row is at least 44" wide.

I haven't decided if I'll add borders or not.

I need to see the rows sewn together first.

Detail of scraps - view 1

The green crumb boxes are empty now.

Time to start saving bits and pieces again.

Detail of scraps - view 2

Who would have thought . . .

Detail of scraps - view 3

. . . an entire quilt top from 

the contents of two boxes of crumbs!

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I'll be linking up with 

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge on Saturday

and

Oh Scrap on Sunday.

Quiltdivajulie