It's my first WIP Wednesday of the new year, and I have a kind of New Year's resolution project to share! Perfect.
So the Catvent QAL left me with a bunch of awesome scraps that were conveniently similarly sized, so I figured they'd be perfect to use together in another project. I was keeping them all together in a little baggie since my normal scrap bin would have taken over the entire dining room, and that baggie got pretty full. So I decided to start stitching them together into some "found fabric" a la Victoria Findlay Wolfe's 15 Minutes of Play.
I didn't want to cut them any smaller, so I would just find pieces that fit together and sewed. When some of those pieces fit together, I sewed some more. And eventually, I got a couple pieces that were decently sized!
I've used up almost all the patterned pieces, and have a bunch more solid scraps, so I'll save those until I fill the baggie up with more prints and make some more squares.
So what's the New Year's resolution? I want to use up those scraps almost as fast as I make them! No more 10 gallon bucket of scraps for me! Fingers crossed...
Linking up with Lee for WIP Wednesday and Kelly for Needle and Thread Thursday!
Love these little scrap blocks. They are adorable, I can see why you can't wait to use them!
ReplyDeleteMe too. So far I'm just making chunks, but I'm hoping that a project reveals itself to me.
DeleteGreat squares! Love that you used up all the scraps right away!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE improve blocks and yours are turning out to be spectacular!
ReplyDeleteI love your blocks! This is something I have yet to try. I'm thinking to make improv blocks with my scraps until I have enough blocks someday for a quilt. I never over buy fabric (of one kind that is lol), so I don't have a ton of scraps. I have decided though, when each of my little trash cans (I save by color) is full, I need to do something with them! Thanks for the reminder to get back to that goal because a few are overflowing :)
ReplyDeleteI LOVE sewing like this. It is so much fun to see those scrap piles dwindling and the blocks are so interesting to look at.
ReplyDeleteThanks a bunch for linking up with Needle and Thread Thursday!
:) Kelly @ My Quilt Infatuation
So far I've loved all the blocks that I've made, and want to make scraps so I can sew more improv blocks.
DeleteI might try to do what you suggest in your tutorial (which probably was a subconscious influence) and cut a slice off a finished block to insert into another.
Improv with scraps is pretty much my most favorite thing to do. I hope you have lots of fun this year with your "keeping the bucket empty" goal. :) Happy Sewing.
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