My bag of 2.5" "blah" blocks

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11-04-2012, 08:09 PM

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Pickles

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I so admire anyone who can set down and sew for three months like that and come up with all
that you did they are all Beautiful !!!

11-04-2012, 08:51 PM

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I am amazed at your output and creativity. Each and every one of them is a beauty. Thanks so much for sharing and motivating those of us that really need to address those "mystery bags piled up in a corner"

11-04-2012, 09:04 PM

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I'm amazed you had that many scraps. And I admire your creativeness and tenacity. I would like to see them after you quilt them.

11-04-2012, 09:10 PM

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Wow! You go girl!! Your persistence has paid off! Such a lovely variety of tops and quilts!

11-04-2012, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by SheriR

What I've learned from your post is to JUST START. Make that first 16 patch. Then keep going and going. Soon you get new ideas on ways to sew them and by the time you get to five or ten or two you start telling yourself...what if I used some HST or put them on point or added stars in the sash. I hope I made sense. You've taught ME a great lesson! Thank you!

Yes, that is exactly how it worked for me.

11-04-2012, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by ube quilting

If you made 14 wondeful quilts from you bag of scraps, my scraps will make about 30 quilts. I'm working on it though!

Your quilts are all terrific. I love scrap quilts.
peace

Thanks...but this was just one of my bags of scraps...just my bag of 2.5" blocks. I have a big 30 gallon trash bag full of 2" strips, one of 1.5" strips, a large box of 2.5" strips, etc. Plus since I did so much cutting up last year I've created another very large, unsorted bag of scraps that need to be dealt with and organized.

But I had no place for this bag of blocks...thus it was just "in my way"--so I decided to liquidate it.

Now I have 14 more quilt tops to deal with!

11-04-2012, 11:17 PM

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You are an amazing woman, such inspiration, thanks for sharing.

11-05-2012, 03:40 AM

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You are truly amazing and an inspiration for my gallon bag of blocks.Now, which one am I going to choose. You have such a fabulous selection.When's your book coming to print?

11-05-2012, 03:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Sewbeeit2

You are truly amazing and an inspiration for my gallon bag of blocks.Now, which one am I going to choose. You have such a fabulous selection.When's your book coming to print?

Too funny.

You are all very kind and thanks for the nice comments.

It was really just a challenge to myself.

I did use up all my "blah" blocks, but in the meantime I had cut more red and white/off white/cream. I didn't use them up, but I didn't want to--they are saved out. But I used up my "boring" ones. For that I am grateful. There were esp. some in there that I was so glad to see "get used"--fabric I just didn't care for at all.

11-05-2012, 04:09 AM

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Oh.My.Gosh! I figured you were just talking about one, maybe TWO quilts worth of squares to use up! Holy Smokes...unbelievable! And each quilt turned out beautifully! And each is unique!