First, the surprise: One of my quilts, Cherrywood Toss, won first place in the Modern category at my local show! Needless to say, I was thrilled!
Cherrywood Toss. Read about it here.
And then it was on to a new scrap project! I’ve been wanting to make a scrap quilt with a zillion pieces ever since my friend Jerri made her postage stamp quilt.
I came across the “lego quilt” on Pinterest and followed the links to this post by Tonya Ricucci of Lazy Gal Quilting, which gives specific directions. Go visit her post–there’s a cool picture of an antique quilt that gave her the idea.
Strips on my design wall
Tonya made her 10″ (finished size) blocks using 1-1/2″ strips composed of scraps of various sizes. She mentioned that there was some difficulty getting them to come out the right size. Because of that, I am making my strips 11″ long unfinished so I can trim the blocks to 10-1/2″ wide after they are assembled. Also, I’m making the first strip in each block 2″ wide unfinished so I can trim in that direction as well. 
So far I’m just making strips and putting them on the design wall to be sure I have a balance of values throughout the quilt. I’ll let you know how it goes. This takes a LOT of time! And like most scrap quilts, it doesn’t seem to use up even 10% of the available scraps! So far I’ve used only one drawer of the scrap cabinet!!!!
This might be a good leaders-and-enders project, since it seems like it could take forever. I’ll let you know how it turns out 🙂
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Well done on the prize winning quilt! I love making scrap quilts, so thanks for the link to the ‘lego quilt’ idea and instructions, I can definitely see myself making one of these 🙂
Oh yes, I ‘m liking this scrap quilt, and the tutorial has some good tips
Congratulations on your winning quilt!!
Thanks! Of course the first thing I did was make sure there WAS more than one entry!
wow congratulations! What fun to win a prize! Also yes on the scrap quilt. It’s a great benefit to know something about sizing/math when needing to construct blocks, eh? 🙂
Yes, the teachers told the truth about math being useful in real life 😉
Congrats on your win!! Nice quilt, love the colors. I think the insertion of the text fabric gives it more pizzaz.
Thanks! I love the text fabric, even knowing it is a fad 🙃
Cheers on the first place! I so agree about allowing wiggle room in blocks when possible.
Thanks!
Congratulations Yeah!
Thank you! It oatmeal was really a nice surprise!
Congratulations!
And I agree with you on the scrappy quilts — I love them, I love the idea of using up all the scraps, I love combining all the patterns and colors — but I work for hours, then turn around and realize I’ve made only one block and the tiniest of dents in the scrap bin! They are enjoyable but not quick.
So true!
Congratulations! It’s a beautiful quilt.
Thanks! See you soon 🙂