Welcome to Treadlestitches!
The cute carrot fabric came from my friend Joey's scraps, as did some other yummy orange prints.
I think that's my favorite part of making quilt blocks--putting together adorable scraps.
Where do all these scraps come from? Well, here's one place--my local quilt store! They have a giant basket of scraps that customers are welcome to root through. We can fill up a bag for a small price, and take them home. Wanna see what I got?
All this was in that bag! Good quality fabric scraps, just waiting to be made into quilts.
The blue and white striped "My John Deere" fabric was a small piece I bought in an antique mall, and I used up nearly every bit of it.
The dark blue squares and the narrow inner border were in the same fat quarter bundle I got at a recent quilt show. (I always look for whatever fabrics are marked down at the show, of course. Don't you?)
The batting is poly. I cut it from a thicker poly and then just pulled it in half to make it thinner. It actually worked! Still soft, but not quite as puffy. And there's another half ready to be used! Bad news, though, it means I can make twice as many quilts from the giant batting rolls Joey got for me. Gotta sew faster!
The back of the quilt is this John Deere tractor print. The quilt will be donated to Project Linus locally. I'm hoping it will go to some little farm girl or boy. God bless the farmers, we all need them.
More scraps are in my new project above. (Check out the scrap from the farm quilt! Leftovers from one quilt go into the next one, of course! And on and on forever!)
The block is called Amanda, and comes from Me and My Sister Designs. I've had this book forever, but just suddenly realized it would be perfect for my 3.5 in. squares and 1.5 in. wide strips.
Here's the front cover of the book, it's 3 Times the Charm, by Barbara Groves and Mary Jacobson. They call it that because each quilt pattern is made up into three quilts, and most of the pieces can be cut from charm squares. All of the patterns have women's names. There are 3 more books in the series.
I may use the black prints for this project, but not the others. I also moved the very short strips to the schnibbles box to be made into crumb blocks.
Rain is expected for this weekend, so we'll try to enjoy the sunshine while we can. I'm wishing sunshine and scrappy fun for you too this week.
Cheers for reading,
Sylvia@Treadlestitches
Linking up with:
Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday
Sarah at Can I Get A Whoop Whoop
Angela at So Scrappy
Cynthia at Oh Scrap
