I May Have A Scrap Problem... Inspiration Time!

Hi, all!

Summer is hard upon us here in Tennessee - soaring temperatures make it easy to stay inside and sew!  I haven't had much time for scrappy sewing lately, but I have been finishing off some UFOs that are hanging around.  I have been seeing some beautiful inspiration on Instagram, though, and maybe that will kickstart some scrappy sewing again!  

Apparently these blocks are addictive - this poster has two different quilts started!  Love those tiny squares...

Can you believe this was her first scrappy quilt?  Great design!

An interesting treatment for a plain scrappy charm quilt!  The dresden butterflies are a nice touch.

I love this idea for leftover t-shirt bits - and they could be used for re-usable shopping bags too!

Isn't this a great scrappy block?

It's easy to be inspired by Gee's Bend style quilts.  This one is a beautiful example!

And you know I'm a sucker for beautiful pillow covers - this one makes my heart sing!

But this - an absolutely gorgeous disappearing nine-patch quilt made with 2.5" squares - this may be my next scrappy project.  I've had my eye on this one for a long time!  And I have such a pile of 2.5" squares - all I'd need to cut would be the red center squares!

So - do you see anything that makes you itch to get to your sewing machine?  

Hugs!

Sarah

Can You Help? The Carolina Hurricane Quilt Project

Hi, all!

Recently I was asked by Carole of From My Carolina Home to help spread the word about her current project, collecting quilts for the many families affected by Hurricanes Florence and Michael on the North Carolina coast.  They are hoping to collect more than 4500 quilts for those whose homes were completely destroyed!  That's a lot of quilts, but definitely not too many for this fabulous quilting community to help meet.  

This project is going to go on through Summer 2019, so there's plenty of time to make one or more quilts, or participate in other ways.  You can find more information on Carole's post, which is chock-full of ideas, suggestions, and ways you can help.  She's even connecting piecers up with quilters if you don't have a way to quilt your own work.  She'll be putting updates for the project on that post, too, so you might want to bookmark it.

She is asking that completed quilts be bed sized - twin, full or queen - since they are only able to provide one quilt per household. The need is so great, they will only be able to provide one per household if this project really takes off, so I hope you'll be able to join in.

And here's an added incentive - the Carolina Hurricane Quilt Project will be one of the charities for Hands2Help 2019.  So you can help Carole and join in the festivities for H2H this year at the same time!

So - do you need a great idea for a quick twin-size quilt?  How about a giant disappearing nine-patch?   This is a super simple quilt (you can find the tutorial here) that's easy to adapt to make twin size.  The one pictured above requires 45 10" squares, and measures 57" x 71".  To make it twin size, you simply need to add nine more 10" squares so you can make one more 9-patch block, which turns into one more row in the layout.  That will yield a quilt that measures approximately 57" x 84".

Here's a very bad picture of one I made last summer using 54 totally different 10" squares.  It is totally scrappy.  If you want one more controlled, or with a more eye-catching pattern, you can use the same print or color for all the centers as I did in the smaller one.

This is a very fast quilt to make - I have literally made one in less than three hours.  Plus it has the added advantage of being able to make from scraps or those random fat quarters you have hanging around!  

So let's get to work and spread some quilt-y love in North Carolina!!

Hugs!

Sarah