Slim Pickings

Throughout September, I've been working pretty steadily on two big quilt projects, and the other day, I just needed something small. And scrappy. So I peeked in my solid scrap basket, which is honestly getting pretty low, and pulled out all the warm scraps I could find. They were a fun mix, but it felt like they needed something. So looking into my stash closet, I chose a small-ish (1/4 yard?) of deep Kona Deep Blue.

With the blue, I cut a few strips both 1" and 1.5" wide, and then just started piecing the scraps in log-cabin-like blocks, inserting a strip or two of the blue into each one. Then I squared them all up, but obviously not too square. Then I used more of the blue to puzzle the blocks together with the same 1" and 1.5" wide strips.

I had just a few pieces of warm solids left to start a pieced quilt back, so I grabbed my warm print scrap bucket, and stole a few from there to bring it up to size.

For quilting, I stitched an angled grid using Aurifil 40wt 5015 [Gold Yellow]. Maaayyyybe it was a bit much, but it felt right at the time, and I was all about just having fun with it. I bound the little quilt with the very last of the Deep Blue, and it finished at 16" x 23".

So that was a fun little interlude, and it encouraged me to get back to quilting the bigger project, so yay! Plus I used up even more scraps. I'm thinking I might just have enough solid scraps for one more quilt, so we'll see if I can get to that before long.