I May Have a Scrap Problem.... Dreaming!

Hi, all!

I'm so glad you all enjoyed the string quilts from last week!  They truly were inspiring, and I've been dreaming about strings since then.

So imagine my surprise on Friday when I received a huge box in the mail, and upon opening it, this was what I saw...

SQUEAL!!!!!!!  A wonderful box full of Latitude batik strings and off-cuts - my poor husband wasn't quite sure what to make of me!!!  There was a LOT of happy dancing going on.....  

I laid it all out on my sewing table - isn't that just a beautiful pile of color?  But of course, all that fabric needed to be pressed, folded and sorted before I can figure out what to do with it...

So Saturday morning I started pressing those strips and putting them into nice neat stacks... lots of nice neat stacks....

...and today I finally finished pressing it all!  There it is, nicely pressed, stacked and ready to be turned into some wonderful new quilts!  

So now I'm dreaming of gorgeous batik quilts!  There's a lot of the green and aqua pieces - and I'm dreaming of either a string quilt or maybe even a Storm at Sea for my own bed.  Probably a string quilt, since I would like to finish it in this lifetime!  And I'm thinking the reds would look stunning paired with some white grunge for a Christmas quilt.... So many possibilities!   And isn't that half the fun?  Thanks so much, Kate - in the words of that song from The Sound of Music, "somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good" to deserve such a wonderful surprise!!

There was another quilt from last week that caught my imagination, too - this one...

...and I couldn't figure out why it kept running through my head.  Then I remembered that my granddaughter requested a photo quilt for her annual (Christmas) quilt, and this design would be perfect!  So I opened up Numbers (the Mac equivalent of Excel) on my computer and started playing around with a layout.  

I'm planning on making it all from scrap, except for the photos which will be in the centers of the large and medium size blocks. It's a lot of sewing, but I figure I can make most of the small blocks a few at a time over the next few weeks, and then it's just a matter of making the big blocks and assembling it.  I love it in a riot of color, don't you?

So that's been my scrappy week - not much sewing because it's been wicked busy around here - but still plenty of thinking about scrap quilts going on!

Have you had any luck taming that scrap monster so far this month?

Hugs!

Sarah