Rainbow Quilt-As-You-Go Blocks!

I started looking around my tiny quilting space, and realized I was about to be eaten by all the scraps of batting.  I don't know why I can't throw them out, but I can't.

So I decided to start a Quilt-As-You-Go quilt because you don't need to have a piece of batting big enough to cover the entire quilt, just the individual blocks.  Perfect!

Currently my favorite.  Mostly because of that little race car in the middle.

And since I have an overwhelming pile of fabric scraps too, I challenged myself to only use scraps.  Absolutely no cutting into my fabric stash allowed.

My view from the machine.  I just love staring at these blocks!  They make me happy.

In one night, I managed to pull all my blue, green, and teal scraps.  (Well, almost all, there seems to be a massive clump in the middle of my bin that has been packed so tight that the fabric has fused itself together.  I could probably make this quilt a king size if I can iron those scraps flat enough.)  I had so many in the teal and green piles that I then separated them out to teal and aqua, and green and olive.  I probably could have don the same with the blue pile and had a dark blue and a light blue square, but oh well.

Progress shot of the purple block.  They go so fast!

I now have the piles made for the red, orange, yellow, pink, and purple squares.  The purple pile is pretty small, so just one square there, but I can probably get at least two squares from the other piles.  That would give me 14 squares, so I might do another blue, or grays and neutrals.

I love the dense straight lines you get to do with these blocks.

BTW, there's a really good tutorial for this from Rachel at Stitched in Color.  She's way more precise than I am, I kind of like the crazy wonky thing that these blocks have going on, but it explains the basics really well.

Linking up to My Quilt Infatuation for Needle and Thread Thursday!