Angie Quilts: Sewing With Left Overs

Monday 27 December 2021

Sewing With Left Overs

Apparently, I uploaded these pictures back in July. I found them in a daft post.

Most of these fabrics were the little strips I end up with after cutting my Angie's Six Packs. You see, from one 6" Width Of Fabric I can cut seven 6" squares. 6 x 7 = 42". Most fabrics are 43 to 44 inches wide so that's why I get little strips that are all 6" long.

I'd seen a quilt on T'Internet which used the Quarter Log Cabin as a centre for a larger Quarter Log Cabin block... as usual, when I tried to find the picture again, I couldn't... So, from memory, I proceeded to make red fabric Quarter Log Cabin units. I used a fabric sample pack that a rep gave to me for the centre/starting squares,... They are evil folk those fabrics Reps... they tempt me with things I don't need!!

Followed by the other Quarter Log Cabin strips in blues, to which I added more from my many blue scraps.

I still had a lot of red strips though, I think the red Six Packs are the most popular, I certainly cut a lot of them! I did start joining them together end to end to make long sashing strips but I didn't like the way it was looking so I decided to join them in strip sets... which I sliced up to make 'bitty' sashing. It looks better doesn't it... they aren't squares though, just random rectangles.

They took ages to piece but I'm pleased with the sashing.

I went around the edge for a bitty border too.

That red bitty border got framed with lots of blue strips.

I found lots of red left overs from making posh cushions for my Mother In Law, so I set about making Flying Geese, every one has been made the traditional way... cutting the individual triangles I mean as the fabrics were only small bits.

Lick-etty-split we jump to an end picture... Free Motion quilting on this one... what I love about a busy scrappy quilt is the freedom to practice Free Motion quilting... You can't really see it, so it doesn't matter how I go!