Scrappin'

I have been plodding on with my postage stamp quilt. Not plodding because I don't like doing it, but because I have a long deadline on this one - a couple of years - so there is no rush. 

It is hard to work out how much fabric will be needed but you just have to be brave and keep sewing. Making it over a long period actually helps. Friends chip in with a sandwich bag of bits every now and again and there always seems to be another pattern to incorporate. The key is not great quantities of material but a humongous range of colours and patterns. Each block has 64 squares where there are only a few repeats in each block. I have five more  blocks to go (I think) and I needed to cut out more fabrics. I did hold some pieces back from my original cutting session at the beginning to ensure there was a spread of fabrics throughout.

I alss saw this little pack the other day on a craft stall which was ideal fodder.

The thing is, I only want small pieces, the crumbs if you will. I don't want to just cut out lots of teeny squares from a large piece. This led to one huge cutting out session to force out little bits from my stash. In my head, I now have five quilt designs!

The tin holds the postage squares. The next pile is fabric I would like to save for future variations all with a very floral traditional theme. The pile with the green roll on top are larger pieces which would be too wasteful to cut into yet until I have a plan for them.They are also big enough for pocket facings or make up bag linings. There is a pile of solid colours, more than I thought actually, for a half square triangle rainbow quilt.

This one is a little stack 9x9cm squares. Whatever was left over from each piece made more tiny squares until it was all gone.

Finally, I ended up with a pile of strips for a crazy quilt. This is a couple of years worth of quilting but now they are all in separate boxes I can keep adding to them as the off cuts keep coming.

Five more blocks to go, exciting stuff. Jo xxxx