Orphaned Blocks QAYG Challenge

**dublb** · 08-24-2012, 10:01 AM

Those are gonna be great!

**rwquilts** · 08-24-2012, 10:13 AM

Patricia Faye, great job!
Jeanie, your blocks will make such a pretty baby quilt!
Jenniky, I use warm and natural all the time and love it...also the warm and white, which is what I use mostly. However...I don't recommend it for hand quilting...fibers are a bit too tough to get tiny, even stitches...have done a couple of projects before I found out it was the batting that was making my stitches look humongous! I don't do much hand quilting anymore, but thought for those that do, they should be aware of this?

**Boston1954** · 08-25-2012, 06:22 AM

Gee, that's odd. I hand quilt a lot, and have never had a problem with Warm and Natural. Don't know if I am just lucky or what, but here are some of my stitches. They fairly good to me.

**gardnergal970** · 08-25-2012, 08:39 AM

Annie, your stitches look great . I love the quilting design you've used. I just recently heard something something about the scrim side and the cotton side. Could it be that you sandwich with a different side down? Is there anyone on this theqd that can tell me which side should be to the top? I understand it has something to do with it pulling through to the right side if the fabric when stitched. And the most basic question, how do you tell which is the scrim side? I've used W&N for about a year and like it a lot. I did send a wool bat along to my LAQ for my warmer winter quilt. She loved working with it!

**Jenniky** · 08-26-2012, 04:04 AM

Great Discussion everyone.... Hmmm how to figure out which is the scrim side. ????

**Jenniky** · 08-26-2012, 04:06 AM

Originally Posted by justflyingin

I had already started on a QAYG using orphaned/scrappy blocks, trying to use them up. Some are attempts at learning my embroidery machine, some are my learning to paper piece, etc.

Here they are. I have 30- 14" blocks, so I plan on using a 5x6 layout.

Here are some pictures. They aren't all that compelling and nearly as interesting as you all's but hopefully when I'm done, it will be a respectable scrappy quilt--

Just flyin I think your scrappy squares are lovely... and the quilt will be warm and cozy to wrap up in when its finished.

**katsewnsew** · 08-26-2012, 04:21 AM

Sounds interesting, think I will give it a try. It would be great to finish a quilt at the same time. BTW, I am from your neck of the woods, The Harbor,

**Jenniky** · 08-26-2012, 04:33 AM

Originally Posted by katsewnsew

Sounds interesting, think I will give it a try. It would be great to finish a quilt at the same time. BTW, I am from your neck of the woods, The Harbor,

Welcome to the thread Katsewnsew. I live here in Portage now but Mesa, Arizona is my neck of the woods. Actually lived both in Mesa and Gilbert.

**gardnergal970** · 08-26-2012, 05:42 AM

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The following are what I'm working on right now. I saw the straight line quilting on a link on the board and it is working perfectly for this. I've pieced the batting and since it's for a little girl, I knew that it would keep it stable for years to come.

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**oksewglad** · 08-26-2012, 07:18 AM

Great quilts, GGal. The house block is an interesting take--could use lots of scraps in this block--what's the overall size of the block?

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