At the Corner of Scraps and Quilts : Painting My World Pink

Friday, 17 January 2025

Painting My World Pink

More of the RSC2025 block were made last weekend. I calculated 10 blocks of each 8 colours (all colours plus Aqua) would make a good size quilt. I believe I will call this one April Fool.

It is a very simple block. One unit repeated 4 times but one with reversed value.

In the picture below, all 4 units are the same. This is how the quilt from Pinterest is constructed. See last post.

Pair one 2.5" square print with a white one then sew a 2.5 X 4.5" print. For the reversed, in the monochrome blocks, just use a white rectangle.

The monochrome blocks need a scrap of a fair size, so for the smaller pieces, I started sewing:

It only needs two 2.5" squares from the print fabric and one 2.5" square from a white and one from a solid fabric. Trim down to 2" and sew in Flying Geese position. It presently stands at 3.5", so I'll need a bazillion to make anything out of these but it gets some scrap out of the bag.

At the Artisanat meeting, I received a big bag of scraps.

I mean a BIG bag of scrap bags. I'm not done looking through it all. The first thing I saw when opening it was: Pink!

The pink panel (?), cheat sheet (?), pillow (?) was on top (it's folded in two in the picture) with the pink scrap bag. At first, I thought that they were from the same project but no.

The bag of gorgeous batik had every bit of scraps, even some of the paper foundation parts. Wish I could see that quilt of hers. It must be gorgeous!

I laughed out loud when I saw the container. No lid, just scraps and my name. She (they?) literally just threw everything in that big bag. I'm so spoiled.

Last weekend, I showed you this picture of little 9-Patch blocks. Now, here's the story.

I found, in the depth of my ~~dungeon~~ sewing room, a little plastic bag and a squirrel came out of it.

There was some black Friendship Star blocks with parts and fabric to make more. A little piece of black scrap was included along with glitter gold fabrics.

All the fabric used in the construction of the Friendship Stars along with the scraps, have metallic gold. So, I rummaged through my scraps to find something that would play nice with these.

This one, with bits of gold, was hired with fingers crossed that there was enough of it.

The black fabric was the biggest headache as I couldn't find anything that fit. I don't buy metallic fabric but I did once, and only once, and it was more than perfect. It was meant to be.

I had fun sewing these little ones. I ran out of the middle red fabric but found another glitter one with stars. Perfect! Just enough of it to make the middle row different.

This is the layout. I found out that the little Friendship Stars were cheerfully crooked. To the left then to the right, they dance. I wasn't about to take them apart so I just winged it.

The result is a little (crooked) table topper or runner. Some stars lost a point or two. Well, that's what happen when you're dancing! I don't know how to quilt it. I have no metallic thread, so I'm thinking maybe a yellow thread? Or maybe cream would work better?

The little bag is now empty but I have one more project on my "to finish" list. It never ends! (But I have one little empty bag!)

Also never ending is my quest for reducing the flannelette bags. I got these fabric ironed and cut. Now to find a layout. Fun! (I don't know why the white batting photographed pink.)