Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Scrap Busting: Project Number Two in Progress


I shared this picture the other day on our guild Facebook page.  I just took a quick iPad photo to show my buddies what I started  because I started something new.  This is my scrap buster quilt project number two.  I am seriously trying to get through the boxes of scraps that I carefully tuck away into "organized by colour" plastic shoe boxes.  Even the white is from the white scrap box.  I will eventually run out of suitable whites and have to resort to yardage but for now, I am scrap busting totally.

This is a pattern from the lovely book, Modern Bee:  13 Quilts to Make With Friends.  And while I am sure this would be lovely with fat quarters, the block lends itself to scrap busting.   One of my guild members asked if my colour choices were random but I would say focused random.  If that makes sense.  I decided that one of the scraps had enough of the colours going on that made me happy that as long as the scraps I pulled were colours found in that one fabric, then they would be allowed to play.  What that meant then, were scraps of orange, green, purple, blue, yellow and some magenta.  The colours needed to be intense and saturated for the most part.  I think it is awesome!  Just my kind of scrap happy!

I am more than a little bit determined to use up scraps and I even bagged up all my little bitty "sawdust" scraps and will pass those off to a friend.  I felt much lighter after that!

Linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced for Work in Progress Wednesday!

14 comments:

  1. Very nice pattern. It makes an interesting quilt and a scrap buster to booth. Gotta love that.

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  2. These are gorgeous! I enjoyed making mine : )

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  3. Love this - I think scrappy is my favourite way of making quilts.

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  4. Love it! That is one quilt I have been looking at making lately. Thanks for showing how scraps work with it. Scraps I have!

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  5. Love all the colors! They look great together.

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  6. Love the bright scraps you've used so far! This pattern is on of my long-term scrap-busting ideas.

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  7. I love seeing how your blocks come together. I've made this block for others in the instabee but haven't seen a true scrappy one!

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  8. I like that a lot. I also have that book and that quilt is on my 'someday....' list.

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  9. Oh cute! I love the colors against the white!

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  10. What an interesting, unusual pattern! Great quilt!

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  11. Excellent idea, scrap-busting with this block!

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  12. Beautiful scrappy quilt , I really like that pattern .

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  13. What a great project! Love it.

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