This weekend I started a scrap quilt. I love making scrap quilts and still can't get all my scraps in the one bin and have the lid close, even when everything is neatly stacked by size. I don't understand it. I mostly make quilts from the scraps, yet they still seem to multiply when I am not looking. There is fabric in there that I KNOW I have never seen before. Fabric just follows me home from garage sales, rummage sales and quilting events. I am sorry I don't have any photos to share of the scrap bin explosion on the sewing room floor. My sewing spaceis on the north (darkest) side of the house and a good photo of theginormous pile of fabrics that ended on the floor just didn't happen. Itried. Really.I found a lot of rich, deep colored fabric pieces and started a new quilt inspired by the antique quilt pictured on page 13 of Gwen Marston's Liberated String Quilts.
I am using a lot of "string" scraps and even some triangles on the corners of the blocks.
The blocks will be about 6 inches square. Each one starts with a center strip of red fabric. It is not as RED as I would have liked, but it is a fabric that I already had.
I hope the red stripe grid will show up in the finished quilt and not be lost in all of the other fabrics.P has really had fun helping me with the scraps. I am waiting to see if she is as eager when it is time to put the fabrics back in the bin. At least there will be fewer to put away!
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