No – not the spaghetti you eat but plastic bowls of fabric trimmings from squaring up the blocks at the workshop last Saturday. The bright colored bowls make the scraps really pretty.
Lynn
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Monday, June 20, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Scrappity-Do-Dah
These are really easy blocks to make – cut a 6” square, cut it in half diagonally, sew a 1 1/2” x 8 1/2” wide strip between and square up. I did make a goof when I cut my small strips as I cut them at 8” instead of 8 1/2” though but it wasn’t a problem I just squared my blocks a little smaller than some of the others did. Follow the photos below to see how I made the blocks.
One thing I don’t understand from the pattern is that the instructions say to trim the blocks down to 5”. What a lot of fabric to trim off – a big waste I think. I cut my center strip too short and still could trim mine down to 5 1/2”. Others that made the correct size center strip trimmed their blocks to 6” and I did a little figuring and if you cut the center strip 9” long you could square up the block at 6 1/4”. I can’t see wasting as much fabric as the pattern has you trim off. If you want to a 5” block the beginning square should be cut smaller than 6”.
I pressed my seams all one direction so hopefully when I put them together I should be able place the blocks about anywhere by just flipping it if the seams don’t work together. That is the plan but will have to wait until I start putting them together to know if that will work or not.
I have 90 blocks done and don’t really know how many I will make – guess when I run out of blues maybe. Looking at my box of blue fabric I don’t think I want to make that many, even though I would love to make a bigger dent in all those fabrics.
I am not rushing to get this quilt finished and think it will be a fun project to pick up and sew when I have just a few minutes as the blocks are so simple to make.
Lynn
One thing I don’t understand from the pattern is that the instructions say to trim the blocks down to 5”. What a lot of fabric to trim off – a big waste I think. I cut my center strip too short and still could trim mine down to 5 1/2”. Others that made the correct size center strip trimmed their blocks to 6” and I did a little figuring and if you cut the center strip 9” long you could square up the block at 6 1/4”. I can’t see wasting as much fabric as the pattern has you trim off. If you want to a 5” block the beginning square should be cut smaller than 6”.
I pressed my seams all one direction so hopefully when I put them together I should be able place the blocks about anywhere by just flipping it if the seams don’t work together. That is the plan but will have to wait until I start putting them together to know if that will work or not.
I have 90 blocks done and don’t really know how many I will make – guess when I run out of blues maybe. Looking at my box of blue fabric I don’t think I want to make that many, even though I would love to make a bigger dent in all those fabrics.
I am not rushing to get this quilt finished and think it will be a fun project to pick up and sew when I have just a few minutes as the blocks are so simple to make.
Lynn
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