Crumb blocks
12-02-2022, 06:37 PM
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Crumb blocks
Do you make crumb blocks? The past two days my brain needed some freedom from the strict piecing I’m doing for another quilt, so I decided to make some crumb blocks. Turns out they’re pretty fun to make. I’m making mine 12.5” and I think I will add a thin, black boarder around them. 
What size do you make yours?
What size do you make yours?
12-03-2022, 06:19 AM
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I've made mine either four or five inches unfinished. Sometimes I put a plain colored block between them and I have also sewn nine of the four inch blocks together to make a big block. They are fun to make. And I never run out of crumbs! They multiply overnight I think!
12-03-2022, 07:47 AM
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I've never done that but I love yours. Sometimes mindless sewing is just the thing for our weary minds! I have a project that is really easy to pick up when I need a break from thinking! It's a 16 patch with 2.5 inch blocks. Easy.
12-03-2022, 09:45 AM
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I loooove crumb blocks! I have made 3 crumb quilts so far -- a wall quilt, a baby quilt, and a bed size bear's paw where the paw pad was made of crumbs. Now I'm working on a 4th, which I hope will become bed or throw size. It's made of neutral crumbs surrounded by a thin strip of either purple or dark blue. The strips come out of my string pile. I like to divide the crumbs into color families and sew them according to their families rather than just randomly. That gives some cohesion to the block as a whole. The bear's paw quilt I did is made from blue, purple, and green crumbs, thus an analogous color scheme.
