My quilter friend across the street had the idea to pull together a small group of skilled quilters to make a Scrappy Celebration quilt, as shown on the cover of this month's American Patchwork and Quilting magazine. When she asked me if I'd like to participate, I jumped at the chance. There's a variety of blocks and we can make it as scrappy as we like.
Image from Better Homes and Gardens
I pulled some scraps and small cuts in the featured colors and shared this photo with my friend:
She had also pulled fabrics, so we got together, edited some out, and combined them into this palette. We're both going to a retreat this week and we'll take all this and work on blocks there.
My friend sent the palette photo to all the participants for inspiration. The other girls will add fabrics so we'll have lots of variety.
Some of us couldn't resist, and jumped right in to making blocks. Edna made Block A in pinks and it's perfect. I want to make one of each block. I made Block B and Block D, both of which use nine patches with 1" finished squares. They're only 9" finished blocks so the patches are very small and fiddly and the piecing must be very precise. Although I'm not ordinarily a starch user, starch is definitely needed for precision with these blocks. With multiple makers, precision is even more important so all the blocks will fit together.
Block B
Block D
The UFO I'm taking requires a couple of special rulers so I have to make sure they're packed with the stuff I'm taking. I need to make sure I have the right threads with me, white for the Scrappy Celebration project for sure. I think I only have grey and beige in my travel tool kit so I need to check. And I want to clean and oil my sewing machine before I go; it gets a lot of use at social sewing and it's probably due.
We'll have 2-1/2 days - and 3 nights - of sewing time. I hope to have some progress pics to post next week!
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How fun to be collaborating with friends to make the Scrappy Celebration quilt. Sounds like you know your packing list; I hope everything you need gets packed.
ReplyDeleteI really like your color choices. Have fun!
ReplyDeleteOooh, that's going to be a fun quilt! I've not read that issue yet, but I may have to break down and add that to my effort to reduce my scraps.
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