Here I used the same corner idea in a hotpad

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This is a wall hanging I made many years ago. I used the light dark scheme for the strip corners.

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Here is a hotpad and you can see the light and dark in the design. It is good to decide when you put your strips together how you want the finished project to look

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This one is all the same direction

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Here is another layout design with using Xs in the corners

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I like to play with placement til I get something I like

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Here is a hotpad with the traditional placing of these blocks

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These were one of my favorites to make when I was short on time.

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An eyeglass case

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This one is actually a Kansas Dugout but I wanted to show the color options y ou can get with these kind of squares. A Kansas Dugout is a 3 strip block while my strip sets tend to be 4 or 5 strips in a block. I called this hotpad Xs and Ox or Tic Tac Toe! LOL

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Another hotpad with a border

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This is a coin purse about 5" square

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These bookmarks are the leftovers. I cut some of them on an angle and sewed them together like you would a crazy quilt.

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More bookmarks-- Nothing goes to waste!!

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And here is the Doll Quilt I made for roseOFsharon for the Doll Quilt swap this month. You can see I used the squares and then I used the borders on top and bottom. Two of the hearts were cut out of the strip sets. As I already had these strip sets setting in a bin on my shelf it drastically shortened the time needed to make this quilt. I like having resources already done ahead.

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Checkbook cover. I cut border like sections of the strip sets and then I tack every place the seams meet with a stitch. Then I trim each side to the size I want from the seam. This makes it easier to handle. You get tiny squares without having to handle each and every square. Each square is about 1/2" finished

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More bookmarks

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