I have been very busy playing with my brown scraps this week. Who knew that I had so many brown scraps - well - actually I did. In the past I have made a lot of 'boy' quilts and used brown very frequently. I haven't been doing that so much lately and that means I haven't been replenishing my stash of brown scraps on a regular basis and I found that I didn't have the best selection in my 2" strips and 2" squares. I did manage to get 10 of the nine patch in a square blocks completed without using any repeats within individual blocks.
I wasn't too sure how these blocks would look surrounded with the black/white prints but I am pleasantly surprised - they remind me of Liquorice All Sorts candy. :)
I also worked on making the rest of the pinwheel/hst blocks that I had planned for last week. I wanted a total of 12 blocks but had only managed to make four. That left 8 blocks still to make and I worked on these in stages over the past week. I had already gathered the scrappy bits I wanted to use and over a couple days I cut the pieces for the blocks. Thursday evening I started sewing them together and I challenged myself to see how long it would take for me to get all of the hsts sewn and pressed. I sometimes have a bit of trouble staying on task - there are just so many distractions. ;)
It took me about 1.5 hours but it was a fun little challenge for me. The only real problem I encountered was that I was a little over exuberant in my fabric selection and cutting and without paying attention I prepared enough for 10 blocks instead of the 8 I needed. I'll keep the extra parts together with the blocks because at this point I don't really know how many I will need. Even though I worked on Friday, I had hoped to finish up these blocks but I didn't get too much done before I ran out of steam. When I woke up this morning I stitched them up right away.
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Eight more blocks finished |
I see that I really should have used some pins when I sewed the blocks together. The centers are a little bit off - I hope the quilt police don't come knocking...they will certainly find many more infractions if they do a search! ;)
This block doesn't look difficult to make and it really isn't but I seem to get a bit bogged down with them. The biggest time consumer is finding the same scrappy strips in 2" and 3,5" so I took the suggestion from last week's comments to just cut whatever I needed from my larger scrappy pieces. I have plenty of chunks of fabric that are smaller than a fat quarter in my stash and using them would make things a lot easier and quicker too!
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All of the brown blocks together. Tricky little devils....
I see that the block in upper right is oriented incorrectly! |
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Rainbow Scrap Challenge used their scraps this week.