Thursday, June 16, 2011

Monday, June 13, 2011

Design floor Monday...

I just had to try one!
I saw this over at Impera Magna's blog. Since I didn't have a jellyroll that I wanted to use, I just got into my 2 1/2" scrap strips container. To make it random I threw in some strips that were not width of fabric. I sewed enough strips together until I had 40x42"=1680" or approximately 46 3/4 yards of strip. Wow! That sounds like a lot when you do the math. I just approximated by counting the number of strips that I sewed together, the shorter ones were counted as 2-3 were equal to one width of fabric strip. Then I just followed the directions at Impera Magna's blog (link above). I think it would look better in coordinated color scheme. Maybe pastels for a baby quilt. It was fun and I plan to make some more of this style for charity quilts. This is a really quick and easy technique.
Chipper and Scotty are getting along much better. The only problem now is that Scotty not fast enough to keep up with Chip. But when his legs are longer they will be able to tear through the house at breakneck speed.
Now I have to get back to quilting on Ruby. I'll have some to show and tell soon.