Hearts and Scraps

June's ufo is finished so I'm still on course to get at least 12 finished this year. I actually finished it in the first week of July, but I've been rather busy and just didn't get around to posting.

The quilt was finished from my stash so a ufo finished, scraps used, a piece of fleece used, lots of scrap squares used. A total win win win.

I added a border to the heart square, then stitched the scraps into blocks of 16 before adding them to the centre. Used a piece of fleece for the backing, quilted it and used some cream fabric from my stash for the binding.

 There is something comforting about a finished quilt all folded up and ready for use.

 Here it is out on the garden bench at dusk

Scrap Attack - Finished

Finished the scrap QAYG (quilt as you go) quilt.I love how quickly these go together once you have enough blocks made. Though they do get a little unwieldy towards the end.

I chose to use a plane cream fabric for the sashing and binding, and the seam ripper is out. I'd stitched that row together the wrong way round. 

Its turned out to be quite a big quilt and in fact it measures approximately 80" x 64" which is much larger than I intended to make when I set out on the project, as I was thinking of making a lap quilt!

I love how the back turned out too.

Now it's finished I just need to get it to the local Project Linus rep for re-homing.

Scrap Attack - update

The pile is growing:

The pile of strips doesn't seem to be reducing though!

Quilt as you go - Scrap Attack

One always seems to have lots of  bits of wadding leftover after any project. These bits are never quite big enough for another project, but too small to discard/recycle, and I positively hate joining wadding, frankly life's far too short for that, so they sit there in their own stash. Then there's the box/es of strips and fabric scraps  along with the ever growing fabric stash. A Quilt As You Go(Qayg) project is called for.

I've cut all the bits of wadding into either 8.5" or 7" squares, anything smaller went for recycling, one has to call a halt somewhere.

I've dug out some of the strips.

Decided to attack the stash and use some of my hand dyed fabrics for back of the blocks, which I've now cut to either 8.5" or 7", with leftovers becoming yet more strips/scraps.

and I'm ready to go...