A Little Bit of Scrappy Sunshine

A year or so ago I made a series of string scrap quilts to control my ever-growing string stash.  Four large quilts later things were in hand, but since then the strings have been multiplying quietly in their box on the scrap shelf... To prevent them escaping and taking over the sewing room Jumangi style something had to be done.

You may (or may not) remember the I pulled these strings aside while I was sorting strings for another quilt.  I folded and bagged them for a rainy day when I finally put them together using Cynthia's wonderful tutorial.

Lots of strings and some narrow white solid for sashing made a 50"x70" quilt.  I quilted it with an allover stipple and bound with more string scraps.  The backing is a fun tiki-style print I found on clearance at Connecting Threads.

This quilt of course is being donated to Covered in Love which gives quilts of comfort to the families of patients who pass away in the hospital.  If you would like to support CiL please check out the main page for more details or our June block drive which is going on now.  Donate a quilt, a top, one block or ten, or just send good thoughts our way. Everything helps!

Linking to Crazy Mom Quilts Finish it Friday.

String-y Design Wall

Always a happy day to have new scraps on the design wall!  First I put some of the Covered in Love block drive lattice blocks up to see how they look. I'm not sewing these together yet, just playing. I know the lighting's bad, but don't these looks cool?  This is from the April block drive, which is still going on if you would like to contribute!

Next I finished the string color blocks that I was working on yesterday. These are made from Cynthia's Scrap-a-Palooza tutorial.  I did end up adding green as a 4th color way to have enough blocks for a 50"x70" quilt. 

Today I'm hoping to sew together the color block quilt and test drive some blocks for future block drives.  Hope your Monday is productive!

Linking to Judy's Design Wall Monday.

Scrappy Sunday Sewing

I love sewing with scraps.  If I could find a way to never use yardage and just sew scraps I might do it, but yardage makes things go so much faster.  Scraps are all about taking you time, enjoying the process, and finding a way to make the most of what you have.  This particular scrap session was reward sewing for getting a school assignment done yesterday.

A while back when I sorted out scraps for another project I put aside pink, yellow, and purple strings for a rainy day.  Now those girly strings are coming together into my version of Cynthia's string color block quilt.  This is one of her fabulous Scrap-a-Palooza series quilts.

Quilt in potentia

I'm trimming my strings to 11" and sewing each color way into a column, then subcutting 8.5"x10.5" blocks from that.  A couple of thin white strips cut from yardage added to the long sides brings the blocks up to 10.5" square.  I'm not sure yet how big this quilt will be or exactly how I'll layout the blocks. I might even add one more color way!  Right now I'm just enjoying to scrappy sewing.

Linking to Oh Scrap!