Scraps: Now a Duckworth pattern top

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Today I report on my significant progress on using my shoeboxes full of scraps.  I started with a white center block and made improvisational log cabin blocks.  These are, I realize now, Duckworth blocks.  Thank Kat for pointing this out.  See this blog entry for more on this pattern, usually made up in scraps from one color.  They are named after Joanne Merrill-Duckworth who sadly passed away in May of this year.

I was working with pink and brown reproduction fabric strips.  A pile of blocks:

I thought setting them side by side (the usual way with Duckworth blocks) would be too much of a mishmash.  So I trimmed the blocks to 6 inches square, and added sashing of beige and black, the two pieces of fabric I had big enough for this task.  The sashing finishes at 1 inch wide.  Here are some blocks sewn together.

I found a reproduction small patterned pink fabric (2 yards) to be border and binding.  The whole top:

And a close-up:

From 2 shoeboxes of scrap strips and about 3/4 to 1 yard of beige fabric, 3/4 to 1 yard of black fabric, and 2 yards of border fabric, I have a lap-sized top.  It is about 60 by 68 inches?  There is some border fabric left over.

Now to consider scraps and leftovers from making my Pie Birds quilt, and leftovers from a green and white log cabin quilt.  I overcut for both projects.

Linking up with Monday Musings, Sew and Tell at Melva Loves Scraps, Design Wall Monday, Wednesday Wait Loss, Put your Foot Down at the Quiltery, Nina-Marie, Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, From Bolt to Beauty, I Quilted This! at Quilting and Learning, Frederique at Quilting, Patchwork, Applique, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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What to do with all these scraps?

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It's time to do some clean-up of scraps, which in my case means using strips that I have overcut.

I have: one inch strips left over from a mini log cabin:

1.5 inch strips from two log cabin projects:  brown strips and lots of pink strips.

1.5 inch strips leftover from my Pie Birds project.

And cut offs from my prep for the flying geese project.

Since I had strips, I used the light fabrics in this last picture as a center, and added strips around it, log cabin style.  Here is a set of about 60 mini-blocks.

Here are the leftover 1 inch strips.  I have no qualms about tossing these out.

Next:  Add the 1.5 inch strips, log cabin style and build these "crumb" blocks up to at least 6 inches square, or larger.  Lots of pink and brown strips will continue the color story.

Stay tuned!

Linking up with Monday Musings, Sew and Tell at Melva Loves Scraps, Design Wall Monday, Wednesday Wait Loss, Put your Foot Down at the Quiltery, Nina-Marie, Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, From Bolt to Beauty, I Quilted This! at Quilting and Learning, Frederique at Quilting, Patchwork, Applique, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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Interim project: Flying geese units

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When I am done with a project and don't have a new one in line, I piece units such as Broken Dishes or Flying Geese.  This week it's been flying geese units, in 1800's reproduction fabrics.

I use the no waste 4 at a time method shown in this PDF.  I know this is not for everyone but if I keep a scant seam allowance, my geese units turn out just fine.

Cut squares:

Piles of finished geese that will finish at 2 by 4 inches:

What blocks to put together?  Perhaps Dutchman's Puzzle, finishing at 8 inches square:

Or Starlight Geese, finishing at 10 inches square:

Hmm, we'll see.  In the meantime, I am sewing 1/4 to the side of drawn pencil lines, cutting units apart, and pressing the units.  I will continue until I have enough for a single bed quilt.  Oh, and I purchased more fabric for sashing and binding for the eventual quilt.  😉

Linking up with Monday Musings, Sew and Tell at Melva Loves Scraps, Design Wall Monday, Wednesday Wait Loss, Put your Foot Down at the Quiltery, Nina-Marie, Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, From Bolt to Beauty, I Quilted This! at Quilting and Learning (she featured my potato chip quilt - thank you!), Frederique at Quilting, Patchwork, Applique, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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Photos to share with Mom

 This is not a quilting post - that will be next Wednesday.

I am sharing photos of an apartment my mom is interested in.  This unit is undergoing renovation so it's empty at the moment.

To enlarge a photo:  Click on it once.   To close the photo view, click on the X at the extreme upper right.

Photos are in order in which I took them.  The fireplace in the living area:

The garage has the workman's items in it, and new appliances.

A view of the kitchen, where the stove will go.  There are lazy Susan cabinets on either side.

The sink area.

And where the refrigerator will go.

The solarium.

The Laundry room has cabinets.

Guest bath has bath insert.  The lid of the toilet is off, for some reason.

Guest bedroom with one closet, with wire shelving.

Master bathroom, with one piece shower stall, a little bigger than usual.

Master bedroom with 2 closets, wire shelving.  Ceiling fan!

Corner of master bedroom.

View of the main living area:

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