Do you have long scraps?

May be you have a tuffet or two in your future.
I just got back from visiting Quiltworks Northwest. It has gotten bigger since I worked there.  I took some  pictures of several tuffets for those who were inspired by this post.  Also met my fabulous friend, Myra Mitchell who teaches the Tuffet class at the shop. If you are in Seattle area, check it out.

 

All pictures were taken with permission of the shop owner, Stacie Baumeister.

 Myra Mitchell and Stacie Baumeister

Katie and me

 After long visit, hugs and lots of laughs I said goodbye once again. But not without taking some more pictures. I am not into beading but it was still a lot of fun to look at textures and colors.

Total eye candy!

 

Yes, This is a beaded chair from India. I am inspired. Are you?

Have fun sewing today!

A new quilt, 'Toran'

A quilt in the making with Goodwill shirts, orange, tangerine and blues form the stash and lots of great memories.
For more inspirations and tutorial visit The Root Connection

A perfect blend

 A perfect blend of  man's and woman's handkerchiefs.

Some of you may have had enough of posting of these blocks on my other blog but I am having way too much fun. I have used up all of the strings I started out with so now just playing around with blocks.

They are now neatly stacked and in a box. I will wait until the next break between two projects to make more of these. If you want a rough guidelines on measurements for these, visit here.

If you end up making one, I would love to see it. I have created an open flickr group for Handkerchief Quilts. Would you mind sharing your pictures?

 

Blue

Well, working with the Goodwill skirts and dresses was not enough. I wondered how men's shirts would play out. It is time to pull them out and make yet another one of my favorite quilts.

My color inspiration came from here.

More to wash and tear and cut and sew. 

Few ideas for scrap quilts

Cut a few two and a half inch squares.

Arrange them into 20" blocks on the design wall.

Sew them into blocks for simple arrangements.

 

 

 for quick results.

 

Make a Clam-shell quilt 

 

They are loads of fun!

Can you tell I love 2" squares?

 

 

 

Bunch of 2" squares, that's all it takes!

Painted Zigzag

Read all about it here.

Something small

The Victorian Hexagon Quilt is finished! I feel pretty proud.. Not only to have finished it but I will be starting to quilt it soon too. Yes, I am staying on track and not let that one go inside the closet.
You can visit here to read more about the quilt.

Before I start quilting  the quilt, I decided to use up those cut-away scraps from the hexagon blocks. As much as I enjoyed making a quilt using foundation piecing method, I wasn't ready to throw away anything just yet.

So, I cut bits and pieces and used what I could and made a little quilt top. 

Yes, I can not emphasis enough on the word "little".

It is an 8" x 8" quilt, I would like to call "Fragments". It represents the memories left in fragments. In this case, the memories of my recent quilt and it's process.

I am making it to donate for the AAQI. For which it represents the fragments of memories left in a brain struck with Alzheimer.

I just found out that the quilt I made last year was sold. A perfect time for me to start another one.

What are your scraps being used for? Mine are going for a good cause.

Visit AAQI to learn more about the project. Help any way you can.

Here is another one I will be hand quilting next week.

Remember, scraps are fast and fun way to make unique quilts.
Can't make a big quilt? Make a small one and donate it to AAQI.
It doesn't take that much time.. Just the will to make it happen.