ScrapHappy Day 15th November 2024

Today is the day in the month when a group of (mainly) quilting bloggers share their previous month's work using only scraps.  Some months I'm only creating scraps, including this month, but I have also done some sewing with scraps.   I made two blocks using Bonnie Hunter's Scrappy Trips pattern, and have decided that it is easier to sew the block using six times 2 1/2"  strips rather than 36 separate pieces of fabric.  I do have quite a few 2 1/2"  pieces in my scrap drawers so will have to use them up in some sort of other scrap quilt pattern, if not this one.  

Here's all my 12"  blocks together so far.  One block was obviously sewn using a different foot, as it is smaller than the other blocks by about 1/2" .  

I've also made a few potato chip blocks this month, using my 2 1/2" x 1 1/2" pieces.  

I tend to do this sort of sewing when I just need some mindless piecing to keep my sewing mojo encouraged.  

I made five yellow blocks and put these with my other potato chip blocks.  Will be a while before I have enough for a quilt!

I'm posting this the night before the 15th.  I'll be busy all day tomorrow and don't know how to schedule publishing my blog in the future.  Sorry!

The bloggers below are all ScrapHappy Day participants, maybe not every month, but their blogs are worth looking at.  If you want to join in too, contact Kate below and have some fun with scraps.  Kate sends a reminder email each month, a few days before the 15th, so you can post about your work with scraps.      

Kate, Gun, Eva, Sue, Lynda,

Birthe, Turid, Tracy, Jan, 

Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys,

Claire, Jean, Dawn, Gwen,

Sunny, Kjerstin, Sue L, Vera, 

 Ann, Dawn 2, Carol, Preeti,

Nóilin, Viv, Karrin,  Alissa,

 Tierney, Hannah and Maggie