I spent much of Thursday prepping pieces and parts for a scrappy quilt to be named SCRUMDIFFEROUS (an adjective for something that is excellent or first-rate).
This is a photo of the un-prepped scrappy leftovers laying on top of yardage that will be used as backing.
This is what all of that was turned into.
There are 65-70 rectangles (2.5" x 4.5") in each of the five color groups. Some were left after making the four bonus Macnas quilt tops and others were cut from an array of abandoned 2.5" strips.
The roughly 350 2.5" squares were cut from light rectangles left after making the four bonus quilt tops plus several shorter pieces of yardage that were begging to be finished off.
The plan is to turn these into a quilt in the style of CAIM and COMFORTABLE and Githerments.
At the end of the day all of the rectangles and squares were sorted and paired, ready to be used as leader-ender or mindless evening sewing.
(Scrumdifferous is the first of 3-4 projects sorted from my overflowing box of gathered leftovers)
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This is what the 35 sewn WOF strip sets from the last post looked like after being pressed.
This is what they look like now.
The shorter lengths (18") will be used to piece top slabs and the longer lengths (20" plus) will be used to piece backing slabs for September's set of six placemats.
(The extra strips on either side are to be used along a side edge if any of the strip sets aren't quite wide enough - I make my top slabs 17" x 24" and the backs 21-ish" x 28")
Once quilted the slab sandwiches will be trimmed to 14" x 20" before binding.
Onward . . .
Quiltdivajulie
-----------------------------------------------"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining."
Shirley Chisholm
1 comment:
That looks like good mindless sewing. The prep work is worth the time spent.
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