My green dancing stars are still waiting to be sewn together, but I felt the need to attack my large bag of green strips and strings. I've made two quilts lately with scrappy rail blocks, but I decided to try the long rows of rectangles demonstrated in the Rockin' Rectangles On Line tutorial. I cut my strips 9 - 9.5" long and then squared up the rows to 8.5" wide. My definition of green is pretty broad, any green component to the print counts in my book. I like the wide range of shades I found in my scraps. I think I will insert these 4 green-in-neutral dancing stars in between the rows. Making five strips of green rectangles finally made a good dent in my green scraps!
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| Some of these greens are from projects long, long ago! |
This plus quilt is another recent finish. Almost all of the fabrics are left over from last year's college quilts. Many are fabrics I used on the backs, and some from the front. I cut the 3.5" x 9.5" rectangles and 3.5" squares over a year ago and kept adding to them as I finished projects and had backing edges. It was fun to pull out the bin and have enough to almost finish the quilt, just had to cut a few more. It ended up 45" x 57", a nice size for the kids at the camp where our guild donates. The camper fabric on the back I found on sale and I just love the cute look it adds to the back!
Check out the other wonderful green creations at the RSC!
4 comments:
I really like your loose interpretation of GREEN!! I also really like your newly completed donation quilt. Scale is SEW challenging when looking at a photo! I thought your quilt was a mini or wall hanging size.
Love your blocks and quilt. Cute backing. Perfect for camp. Congratulations on a great finish : )
Great ideas and great quilts! I think I should do the same thing with all my leftover green scraps. So many scraps, so little time!
Congrats on making a dent in your green scraps, that has to feel good. You've got some great projects in the works.
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