Originally Posted by
dhanke
They are both fabulous! I take my hat off to you for making three from the same pattern. Your powers of concentration are much better than mine. Did you work on all three tops at the same time or did you complete one before you on to the next?
When I did the 2" squares, I sewed together 2-2" strips from my scrappy stash, then cut them up into 2" widths so there were in groups of 2, threw them in a bag then pulled them out randomly and sewed them together to make the 16 patch middles. That way they were random and no two the same, but I wasn't sewing individual squares together which would be very tedious.
I ended up making too many 16 patches, so I just kept making them this quilt. By the time I was done with the third, I was kind of tired of it!
But in truth, how neat it looks made me keep wanting to try it in a different color. The first one I did was yellow.
I really have a lot of scraps and was trying to make a dent in them. In 2011, we finished over 80 charity quilts, and just the finishing of them alone created a ton of scraps, just from the leftover trimmings from the backings. Plus, some people gave me their scraps/very small pieces...