After making the two purple blocks for the Rainbow Pennies quilt, I could have put the remaining strips and squares back in the scrap box and moved on, but of course, I didn’t. I looked through my Villa Rosa Designs patterns and came up with one that I thought would make the remaining scraps shine,… Continue reading Purple Jasmine
Tag: scrap quilts
Xing string blocks
These are the two blocks that make up the quilt after the string units are complete. I wanted to see how difficult they are to put together, since I’m pressing all seams open to reduce bulk. They’re a little fiddly, but fairly straightforward. I have all my units for the star block centers. Now I’m… Continue reading Xing string blocks
Purple Pennies
As I was organizing some scraps the other day, I pulled out my purple 2½” strips and squares and selected 50 different ones from which to make two 25-patches. I’ve been working with crumbs and strings more lately (mostly organizing and pressing but a little sewing too, for Xing and Crumble Weave), and it was… Continue reading Purple Pennies
Found another project
I was working through my project box for Crumble Weave, and down underneath all of the strings and scraps for that project was another project I forgot I had started. I didn’t have a specific quilt design in mind when I started piecing together a bunch of crumbs and strings. I just wanted to sew… Continue reading Found another project
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… Continue reading Scrappy test block