Saturday, August 2, 2014

Scrap Control

Are your scraps out of control?  This past week I found myself with some time on my hands and I decided to start using them up or cutting them into usable sizes for future projects.  Starting with cream/white, I cut 2.5” and 3.5” squares, and then used the leftovers to piece some improv slabs.

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You can see I also did a few dark gray/black blocks too.  I had no idea how good this was going to look until I started laying out the blocks and took the photo.  I made a serious dent in the lighter scraps, but still have tons of other scraps to work through…

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I’m thinking of focusing on aqua and orange for the other blocks to include in the quilt with the cream and dark gray.  What do you think?  Maybe lime green, too.

I also finished up quilting my nested churn dash wall hanging.  It is not perfect by any means, but I’m really happy with how it turned out.

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I did not follow Angela Walters’s advice to use thread that will blend.  Instead I used what I had, which was light aqua and highly contrasted with the charcoal fabric.  I really need to work on either starting and stopping more unnoticeably or learn how to bury my threads…

My regular sewing machine was having issues again and is in the shop (it went in the day after I finished my Michael Miller challenge quilt), so I’ve been using my daughter’s Janome in the interim.   The binding on this wallhanging will have to wait a while because my daughter’s machine doesn’t have a walking foot, a necessity for machine binding!

Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend!

9 comments:

  1. I don't follow any kind of rules when quilting. I use the threads that I have and I do have a lot of thread and could probably blend, but where's the fun in that? Your wall hanging is simply gorgeous; love the quilting! I am still just doing lines, lol! Great piece!
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  2. Your Churn Dash looks great, but I really love those scrappy blocks. They look fabulous together like that.

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  3. Love the scrappy blocks! I'm working diligently to use up scraps right now. How was your weather today? It was beautiful here. :-(

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  4. I like your idea to cut out the squares (which I presume you will keep aside for future projects) and then use the leftovers for slabs - they look really cool. When I actually have more than one bag of scraps I will look at maybe using them that way too!

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  5. that is a great idea to cut your scraps into useable pieces - but pretty time consuming I imagine. I am trying to use my scrap box too at the moment!

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  6. Jamie, what a great way to use up tons of scraps. This is going to be one amazing quilt.

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  7. So nice to see someone else's scraps! Mine are WAY out of control. I should really start using them rather than trying to figure out a way to store them. Both of your quilts look pretty awesome :)

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  8. I need to get back to cutting my scraps into squares! You know I didn't use a coordinating thread for my Nested Churn dash either.

    Love the scrap slab progress,it is very original and should make a good dent in those scraps!

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  9. Love the scrappy blocks and the Nested Churn Dash. I made 5 big monochromatic slab blocks last month for a charity quilt and it didn't make much of a dent in my scraps. ;)

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