Since my last post was about the vintage family quilts, I thought I would post about the family scrap drawer this time.. My mom saves EV.ERY.THING. :) So she has this drawer with different sizes of squares already cut, big and small, and rectangles. She also still has her 1960's cabinet Singer sewing machine.
This is the machine I learned to sew on. :)
So when I saw all of the scraps in the drawer, from the 80's and 90's, and a few from the 60's and 70's when my mom used to sew a lot of clothes..
..I thought it'd be fun to sew some of them together.. so I took this stack of rectangles and just started sewing them end to end. For lack of a better plan.
And before long I was swimming in a long string of rectangles..
But finally I had sewn them all together, end to end, and I'm pretty sure they would have reached all the way around the house!
I had to roll them around an old spool of thread to keep them organized and from knotting up..
My mom and I layed them out on her bed last night and cut them to length to make a queen size scrap quilt.
Now they are waiting to be sewn together in groups of three, two of them are done, and there will be eight.
They will be sewn alternately with rows of yellow in between.. kind of like this..
So hopefully before we have to leave, it will be a queen size quilt top.
Still having a good time, may get to go and visit my cousin and her family on her farm, near here later this evening. Word has it that they have a baby calf that they are bottle feeding right now. *swoon*.. I think A would really like that.. and if not I will I'm sure. I am missing my big furry beast of a dog right about now! Having Buster withdrawals.
Hope you all have a great week ahead!!! Thanks for coming by!
xoxo
We have been on vacation visiting my bro & SIL in Nashville, TN and while there, I noticed these beauties which belong to my SIL. I love old family quilts that are passed from generation to generation..
This double wedding ring was so cool with all of its scraps--so much work in it...it has a couple of rust stains, and the binding is a bit tattered.
We have been gone a week, and I am missing my scrap bin right about now.. Look at these baskets.. with the blanket stitching around the edges of the flowers and the embroidery on them. And all of the hand quilting..
So cool! Turquoise and red even, check out that sashing.. :)
Mr. Sonny got his best night's sleep with his Mickey Mouse under this quilt.. Sometimes when he's sleeping I catch a glimpse of the tiny thing he used to be.. growing up so fast.. :/ I love all of the prints in this quilt!
After four days, we left Nashville and headed to Joplin, MO and are now visiting my parents for about a week, before we head to KC, MO for three days to visit my other brother and his family before heading home. At my parents house, I am reminded of my grandmas and great-grandmas around every turn.
Mr. Sonny is sleeping under this log cabin, which was falling apart so bad that my mom rescued it and turned it into two pieces. A lap quilt and a mat for the top of the dryer..
Happy Launderizing..
This quilt is on one of the extra beds..
Everything is so scrappy.. they used to sew all of their clothes, and then use up whatever they had left in quilts out of necessity.. I love that nothing went to waste, and that they made such beautiful things with very little. Quilting history fascinates me. And all of the hand quilting is beautiful.
I am sleeping under this beauty.. so gorgeous.. love all of the old scraps. Another scrappy double wedding ring..
And then I hunted this down in my mom's linen closet to have another look at it. My great grandmother on my dad's side made it so so long ago, she always called it a Little Dutch Girl quilt, another name for Sunbonnet Sue. :D Sunbonnet Sue isn't my favorite pattern in the world, but this one I love because of where it came from..
and I love all of the fabrics in the dresses, and the variations of the embroidery on the bonnets.
Some just have bows, some have only a band, and this one has some extra flowers. :D
Here's the hand quilting from the back..
*swoon* I love old family quilts.. I always wonder what was going on in the lives of the women when they were sewn together/quilted, and where all of the fabrics came from, or what they might have been in their former life.
Thanks for dropping in!! We are having a fun summer vacation and family visit. I will be ready to attack some more scraps when I get home for sure!
Oh, and we got to meet and visit with Maude the Old English Sheep-puppy.. she's five months old now and she is the sweetest, softest, fluffiest girl! (it made me really miss Buster!!!)
Have a great rest of the week and weekend!!
xoxo
The day I've been waiting for is here! I can finally show you Mod GeoCruiser in its entirety!
The Make it Right Challenge entries are live on the Art Gallery Pinterest boards, and voting has begun.
Here is my Mod GeoCruiser quilt, the full reveal.. if you like it or love it or like the pattern that I drew up, I hope you will go over and repin and like it in order to vote for it.
Please don't pin from my blog b/c the vote won't count.
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO VOTE BY REPINNING AND/OR LIKING directly from the Art Gallery board: (and to see a bigger pic)..pretty please?..I'll love you forever!! :)
Thanks!!! Have a great weekend! We are in Nashville right now visiting family and having a great time so no sewing will be going on for the next couple of weeks, but maybe I'll find a quilt shop or two? ;)
I will post all about Mod GeoCruiser, the inspiration behind it, etc. with lots more pics after we get back from vacation.
Thanks again for voting!
xoxo
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After I started making some "scrappy fabric" late last week, I found it to be addicting, and continued right over the weekend and am still "crumbin' away".. notice the tiny pin wheel on this chunk of fabric? It is about 1.5 in. square and is made from the small triangle scraps trimmed from my x and + blocks. :o) I like that a tiny pin wheel is hiding in the chaos of the scrappy fabric.
There are even a couple of Mod GeoCruiser handle bars in the one above, do you see them? You will understand all about that on Thursday, when the Make it Right Challenge projects are up on the Art Gallery pinterest boards! :)
Here are a couple of chunks that I haven't cut into blocks yet..
They have some HSTs in them that are made from the triangles trimmed off of the Mod GeoCruiser, too.. I'm glad I found a use for those tiny triangles. And I'm glad there are no rules, and there's no measuring (or pinning!) needed when you make your own scrappy fabric!!
So far I have three 12.5 in blocks, one 8.5 in block, six 4.5 in blocks and a couple of 2.5 in blocks.
Even using all of these scraps, it doesn't seem like I've even made a dent in ONE section of my hanging scrap basket but the pile has gotten smaller, believe it or not! That scrap basket is like a clown car, you start taking out the scraps and they just keep coming and coming.
Much like my purse when A was about two years old and would want to take a hot wheel (which would end up in my purse)with him every time we left the house. One day I decided to empty out my purse (a smallish purse, too!) and I'm not kidding, I ended up getting 25 hot wheels out of my purse. I don't know where they came from but they kept coming out.. no wonder my shoulder was hurting lugging that purse around!
I am sure I will have all of the "fabric" needed to make the blocks I need for the quilt that I have drawn out for them. Just out of that one little section of the basket! The quilt is going to be called Trash to Treasure, and it will be half cool and half silly, and be the perfect everyday couch quilt. It may not be "perfect" perfection but it will be perfect for the role it will play in our family room. :o) It will be a can with scraps flying out of it and dripping out of it. :o) I don't think the word "scrap" will actually be on the quilt..
I will leave you with a photo of the blocks of scrappage that I have cut out so far pinned up next to the x and + blocks..
..and a couple of other photos..
Here are the tiny triangles and some other tiny pieces that I chained together the other day.. 14 feet of them. :o) Perfect activity if you want to spend some QT with your sewing machine but don't want to think much.. or at ALL. ;) See the tiny little pink/black&white one inch square on the end over on the lower left? Four of those are what made up the tiny pin wheel.
Look! Sock Monkeys! :)
No Scrap left behind.
Not one. Not even if it's hideous.
Oh! And look what came in the mail yesterday! Woohoo! Another Right Angles panel, from Angela Walters, thanking me for participating in the Make it Right Challenge. I was so excited! Thanks Angela!
Now I'll have to think up another project to make with this one, and this time I can use whatever fabrics I want with it! (only Pure Elements solids were allowed with it in the challenge.) When I originally ordered the first panel for the challenge, I couldn't find it anywhere, the only place I found it in stock was at The Intrepid Thread, and it was bundled with a FQ set. So the FQs have been just sitting there feeling left out! Not anymore! :)
Thanks for stopping by, don't forget to go over and follow Art Gallery Fabrics on Pinterest so you can see and vote for your favorite Make it Right Challenge projects on their boards on Thursday. :o)
xoxo
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