Summer 2016 has been the summer of not-quilting-very-much for me. I started a new job mid-summer. The job is great but it has taken a few weeks to get used to commuting to the office (I used to work from home two or three days a week) and learning the ropes of the new position. Here we are at the end of the summer and it's time to take Miss Main Street back to college for her senior year.
I have made some progress on my current piecing project, using Fig Tree Quilts fabric leftovers and scraps. I cut lots of strips from the remainders of fat quarters and fat eighths....
...and sewed them into strip sets. After further cutting, they look like this.
I cut the pieces that were too small for strips into squares. I'm even using the leftover 2" squares from Globe Trotting, a quilt I made in 2013.
This latest project was inspired by two quilts I saw in blogs, Red Pepper Quilts Irish Chain Scrap Buster, and Seven Letters Quilt as made up by Holly Hill Quilt Shoppe. My version will be a mashup of the two, with a bit of my own twist. I'm following Red Pepper Quilts' directions except I downsized my squares to 2". I really appreciate the pressing instructions in her tutorial because it will help a lot as I put the blocks together. I have my fingers crossed that as it comes together, it matches my vision!
These quilts look like they will use up lots of scraps and left over fabrics and love the "Fig Tree" fabrics....I am hoarding...ooop, saving mine;)))
ReplyDeleteYour basket of Fig Tree fabric must be coming close to being finished up. This idea seems like it will use up a lot. It should be sweet. Congrats on a new job. Hope everything settles down soon.
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