Scrappy test block

A couple of weeks ago, a quilter brought in to our weekly sewing group some of the quilts that she had been working on over the past few months. I didn’t catch the name of one of them, and neither did anyone else to my knowledge, but another quilter mocked up the block in her Electric Quilt program. She brought me a copy of the block layout, and well, of course, I had to take it home and see if I could make it.

Over the course of several days I managed to make four of the blocks. I laid them out on my design wall, and I really like them. If I were to do this quilt as I go, it would probably take a while to make, but I think it would be super pretty, and totally scrappy.

My blocks finish at 6 inches (6½ before putting them all together), so the units are great standard sizes at 2½” squares, 2½” half-square triangles (shouldn’t that really be half-triangle squares??) and 2½” by 4½” half-triangle rectangles.

To make the half-triangle rectangles, I’m using the recs ruler from the tri-recs set, and cutting 2 pieces each from scraps that are 3½” by 4½”, all facing the same direction, NO MIRRORED PIECES.

I’ve also used some old-old-old scraps from quilts I made long ago, and cut just single pieces from them. These scraps are from the Drunkard’s Path quilt I made for a friend back in 2001-2003. I love that I can continue to use them up over 20 years later!

Because of all of the points, and there not being a really great way to nest all of the seams so that it lays flat, I decided to try pressing all of the seams open. Not sure how long this will take, and I know I also want to focus on older stuff, but the newer things just keep bullying their way to the front, so we’ll just compromise and work on them all.