On the design wall

I’ve been parsing through a few little scrap bags that I purchased at the quilt show a couple of weekends ago, sorting, pressing, and cutting into strip sizes I use for scrap quilts.

I’ve also been inspired by several quilts I’ve seen on social media and elsewhere. So I decided to just start making some blocks and we’ll see where they take me.

Left to right, the first block is a tiny potato chip block. I used 1.5 by 2.5 inch rectangles for those pieces. You can also make the block using 2 by 3.5 inch rectangles or 2.5 by 4.5 inch rectangles. Brenda at Conquering Mount Scrapmore has a video on how she makes the blocks and the sizes you can use. Of course, the one I made is tiny, because I love using 1.5 inch strips and squares. But that will take a while to piece an entire quilt if I continue in that direction. It might be good for leaders and enders!

The next two blocks (stacked vertically) are High Cotton blocks. The quilt is one I’ve made before, and I thoroughly enjoyed making it for my dad, picking out each fabric (it doesn’t take much), and watching the blocks stack up. Instructions are available in the book Simple Comforts by Kim Diehl (the quilt is on the cover).

The right two blocks are from the 2024 Stash Buster Challenge by Border Creek Station. They are actually a variation I saw made by someone else, who swapped the lights and darks in the blocks. And since I tend to have way more colored than neutral fabrics, I thought that was a genius use of the two values/colors for my purposes.

I have a few other ideas floating around in my head (and in screenshots/saved photos on my tablet). I may add more blocks and just play with whatever I fancy each day as I sew. I love looking at the Brightly quilt, and it looks easy enough to do, I want to piece some more string quilts like the Spiderweb quilt, and of course, I have several others that are already in progress but close to having all of the blocks finished. Sew much fun!