Playing With Scrap Strips

Last year I cut a million 1 1/2" strips to make the quilt below:

This quilt has recently been sent off to be quilted....FINALLY!!

In the meantime,

I have a box with so many scrappy strips left

and didn't know what to do with them.

The other night I was cruising the internet

and found this pattern that uses 1 1/2" scrappy strips

and it was calling my name!

The pattern is called

"Piece-full Days"

by Ruth Ann Sheffield.

(image taken from the equilters website at the link above.)

Since these are reproduction prints,

(not my favorite!)

I just had to use Maisie, 

my new to me featherweight sewing machine,

to sew the blocks together.

The sewing began and I'm gathering a stack of fun blocks.

When I started making these blocks,

I thought I would just put them all together to make a quilt

and not use the outer border or HST sashing around the blocks in the pattern.

 

After putting the blocks on my wall,

they DEFINITELY need a border to stop the madness.

I'm not sure that I'll use the HST borders,

but will remain open to the possibility.

 

It's nice to just pick strips and sew and then trim to size.

 

I had a bunch of "bits" after sewing a number of blocks

and decided to use them all in a block.

I should have several of these since I have to trim all of the blocks

once they are sewn.

This will be a project that I'll work on from time to time.

There's no rush to get this one finished

and the scrappy strips aren't going anywhere!

Happy Quilting!