Scraps - POM presentation

 

Scraps - Still working at them

 This is the 3rd quilt.  I thought of using the leftover piano keys but it didn't look right.  I think another quietish border will look good.  I don't have a fabric in the colour or style I'm looking for.  My friends have offered me to "shop" in their stashes.  If I have no luck, I may have to break down and purchase fabric.

I am now working on the 5" crumb blocks.  This is them without sashing.  Way too busy.

This will be them with sashing.  And if I cut the 5" width leftover piano keys into 5" lengths, I will have enough 5" blocks for an entire quilt.  So definitely will need to buy sashing fabric.

And these are the 2" squares sewn into rows of 4.  On the far right you can see how they will look as 16 patches.  And the four patch of the pieces triangles.  But that's for another day.

Finished Chinese Coins

 Not perfect but close enough.  Now to see if I have enough batik left to do the third quilt top, also from the binding strips and other 2 1/2" leftover strips.

I hate doing math.

Scraps to Quilt - First Quilt

 I finished all of the scraps (except for those which were created while making the piano key strips).

So here are the diagonally strips pieced and the piano keys.

 

And this is the finished quilt top. 

Second Scrap Quilt from Binding Strips

 Full disclosure, although there are binding strips here, I also included fabrics which I bought when Quiltmaker (I think that was the quilt store name) on Avenue Road closed.  How many years ago was that?  The burgundy fabrics are from there.  Although I used some burgundys for backings, I still had some and it no longer fits into my colour preferences.  So I cut them also into 2 1/2" strips.  I had originally thought of putting all of the 2 1/2" strips together in a jelly roll race type idea but the pieces were all different lengths and I didn't have the patience to do the math and figure out which colours to put beside others.  Scrap that idea (no pun intended).

So what I did was make blocks to be finished at 6 1/4", each made from 3 different colour strips.  6 1/4" because that's the size of 3 strips sewn together.  I cut the lengths closer to 7" ish because I figured more is better than less.  Then I trimmed them down to 6 1/4" squares.  More about the trimmings later.

So I laid them out in a rail fence pattern and didn't like it.  Too busy.

Next I laid them out in a "Chinese coin" pattern.  Like it better.

I did my math (math and I do not play well together) and figured that I can do 5 rows of 11 blocks in each row, no sashing between blocks, but a binding strips of 2 1/2" for sashing between the rows and on the perimeter.  That will give me another twin bed size quilt.  And the colours don't look as "chalushuss" in this pattern.  Now I just have to move blocks around so that I have as few similar pattern blocks beside one another.

And that leaves we with enough blocks for an extra 3 rows which I may not do as coins but as blocks, separated by sashing.

I still have some piano keys left over.  And a bunch of 5" blocks from the burgundys and a other totally unrelated fabrics.  Oy.  I am thinking of maybe trying disappearing 9 patch or disappearing 4 patches but I will see.

And then remember the 5" crumb squares I made?  If not, below see them on the right.  On the left are more crumb blocks made from the trimmings of the binding strips.  I managed to make from the crumb leftovers from before and the above trimmings almost as many squares as I had previously made.

 

I also managed to squeeze one more square from the remaining crumbs.

I was short a bit in one corner so I added a piece sewing to one side and zigzagging the other side.

I figure if I bury this block somewhere in the middle, it won't be noticeable.  And if it is, at this point I really don't care.

So I am making progress, albeit slowly.

Quite pleased with myself.  And well on my way to filling a second pillowcase with trimmings from the crumbs too small to quilt with for the animal hospital.

Scraps - Final Cut

 I finished cutting all the scraps today.

So I have 5" squares, 3" squares, 2" squares and 1 1/2" squares with no plans for them at the moment.

I have strips for piano key borders.

I also am making crumb blocks.

So that's it for now.