Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Into the Scrap Stash

 A little trip into the wonderland

of Pinterest and a lovely new

scrap burner has been discovered. 

We are in the midst of a cold spell here

so it is a good day to start a new project!


Windchill of -42 is nippy!

This design lends itself very well

to strips and is turning out to be a 

very good time!

Made up of isosceles triangles set 

end to end form diamonds,

the big piles of colors surrounding

my sewing machine makes me 

feel like the miller's daughter!



This triangular block uses up 

lots of strings of all sizes.  

Each top will use about 100 

blocks. There are 60 in the 

stack so far but there are still

four colors to go! 



The design boards are getting 

put to good use. Piling up a 

stack of blocks laid out 

makes the stitching fast and fun.


The goal is to sew thru the piles completely

without returning them to storage!

I will make a good run at them, 

and there will definitely be more than

one top made out of this wealth of scraps.


Stay safe and sew on!


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7 comments:

  1. Spring is on the way... so I hear ;) I love a good scrap buster. Thanks for sharing in my Sew & Tell party.

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    1. You are very welcome. Still cold here though, spring is a ways off for us!

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  2. Yikes -- you make my 23 sound warm! So far we haven't been in negative numbers and I hope we never are! I like your scrap buster action. I'm assuming you are sewing the strips together and then cutting the diamonds. Neat idea. And, I bet it really busts a lot of scraps.

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    1. It sure does, I sew the graduated strips and then cut the diamond shape. It uses
      up small pieces that way also. It is weirdly fun to sew thru a pile of color! Yay quilting , always full of surprises!

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  3. You are so well organized, you'll be burning through those scrap piles in no time! Thanks for sharing on my weekly show and tell, Wednesday Wait Loss.
    https://www.inquiringquilter.com/questions/2025/02/18/wednesday-wait-loss-420

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