Joey's Scrappy Quilt
05-04-2010, 11:33 PM
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Wow thanks so much everyone! I'm pretty pleased with it, especially since it just evolved and made from scraps, I feel like it hardly cost a thing! (well, wadding, backing, border fabric, the red and cream yardage, thread etc - but you know what I mean! LOL)
Karla - I cut scraps into strips of 1 1/2" or squares of 2 1/2" like here (these coordinate well with charm squares of 5"). Anything around fat 1/8th size or bigger, I leave as is and store in a plastic crate. And really small scraps, of 1" up to 2 1/2", are stored in three tubs sorted into light, medium and dark (kind of! LOL). These I use for applique, crumb blocks or I let the kids mess with them, ermmm, SORT them out for me!
Gai - he DID look a bit askance at the few scraps of pink in there - but I told him it wasn't pink, it was raspberry, then he said 'oh, ok!' LOL
Karla - I cut scraps into strips of 1 1/2" or squares of 2 1/2" like here (these coordinate well with charm squares of 5"). Anything around fat 1/8th size or bigger, I leave as is and store in a plastic crate. And really small scraps, of 1" up to 2 1/2", are stored in three tubs sorted into light, medium and dark (kind of! LOL). These I use for applique, crumb blocks or I let the kids mess with them, ermmm, SORT them out for me!
Gai - he DID look a bit askance at the few scraps of pink in there - but I told him it wasn't pink, it was raspberry, then he said 'oh, ok!' LOL
05-04-2010, 11:42 PM
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Originally Posted by k3n
Gai - he DID look a bit askance at the few scraps of pink in there - but I told him it wasn't pink, it was raspberry, then he said 'oh, ok!' LOL
Well, you can tell him I just went back to check VERY carefully, and (as usual) Mom is correct: those are raspberry, not pink. And trust me, I know raspberries! They are my favorite fruit!
:P :P :P :mrgreen: :mrgreen: ;-)
05-04-2010, 11:55 PM
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Originally Posted by gaigai
Originally Posted by k3n
Gai - he DID look a bit askance at the few scraps of pink in there - but I told him it wasn't pink, it was raspberry, then he said 'oh, ok!' LOL
Well, you can tell him I just went back to check VERY carefully, and (as usual) Mom is correct: those are raspberry, not pink. And trust me, I know raspberries! They are my favorite fruit!
:P :P :P :mrgreen: :mrgreen: ;-)
05-05-2010, 12:03 AM
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Originally Posted by k3n
Originally Posted by gaigai
I know raspberries! They are my favorite fruit!
You are a MEAN, CRUEL woman!!! :hunf: :hunf: My grandfather used to do that. He would call and say "I just picked 20 quarts of raspberries that are big enough to fit over the top of your thumb". When I would tell him what a mean old man he was, he would just laugh and laugh!!!!
But thanks for thinking of me. I'll pretend you sent me some anyhow! It is the thought that counts, isn't it?!! :P :P
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