- - My bag of 2.5" "blah" blocks
(https://www.quiltingboard.com/pictures-f5/my-bag-2-5-blah-blocks-t204963.html)
Lori S
11-03-2012 09:23 AM
WOW WEEE!!! Just an impressive amount of piecing and sewing...( and I might add .. and impressive amount of scraps) you truley were consumed by modivation and inspiration. Lovey quilts all of them!
ScrapQuilter
11-03-2012 09:47 AM
Very nice quilts - great way to use up your scraps.
justflyingin
11-03-2012 09:58 AM
Originally Posted by needles3thread
(Post 5631771)
What a creative mind you have. I specially like #'s 11 & 12.
My son said that those "mess with his mind". :)
RedGarnet222
11-03-2012 10:01 AM
I am absolutly amazed at the amount of nice quilts that you have been able to make in this amount of time! WOW.
justflyingin
11-03-2012 10:02 AM
Originally Posted by JoanneS
(Post 5631947)
WOW! I'm curious how you wound up with so many 2-1/2" squares. Do you cut them from scraps as you finish quilts?
I have a whole bag of scraps leftover from backing quilts (or should I say multiple bags). Also, I've been the wonderful recipient of a lot of scraps type of fabric. I cut them into strips and squares as per the Bonnie Hunter method (except I don't do bricks). Then, I try to make something with them. Since we have a charitable organization, it is a constant need. We give quilts to poor people and single moms or just working poor who need them.
Last year alone I did 80 quilts (all bed sized). This year it is fewer, but I've finished over 20 this fall--but have a lot of tops waiting to be finished. I'm not embarrassed by that as I made tops when I didn't have batting. We give out a lot of these quilts over Christmas time...so I need to finish them soon so I can focus on my own family. ;)
But the bag of squares was large! It took literally several hours to sew them together the first time and I can sew with much concentration and I chain stitch and have a Janome 7700.
jojosnana
11-03-2012 10:06 AM
Holy Toledo you need to rest! I can't believe what you have accomplished with scraps....amazing.
lfstamper
11-03-2012 10:10 AM
HOLY COW! You have your own scrappy slide show - great job on all of them!
barny
11-03-2012 10:27 AM
Golly, all of your quilts are beautiful. It would take me from September to now to figure out how to make one quilt!. You are a wonderful sewer. Your concentration MUST BE VERY GOOD. Barny
DebraK
11-03-2012 10:29 AM
you are my hero ;-) I absolutely love the red star sashing.
Tothill
11-03-2012 10:43 AM
Wow I am amazed. After seeing the 16th quilt top I had to go back and check the date you started. I was thinking you must have started in Sept 2011 not this year.
You have done incredible work and have shown that a 2.5 inch square can look so incredibly different depending on how you use them.
