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.