My bag of 2.5" "blah" blocks

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11-03-2012, 09:23 AM

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Lori S

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WOW WEEE!!! Just an impressive amount of piecing and sewing...( and I might add .. and impressive amount of scraps) you truley were consumed by modivation and inspiration. Lovey quilts all of them!

11-03-2012, 09:47 AM

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ScrapQuilter

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Very nice quilts - great way to use up your scraps.

11-03-2012, 09:58 AM

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justflyingin

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Originally Posted by needles3thread

What a creative mind you have. I specially like #'s 11 & 12.

My son said that those "mess with his mind".

11-03-2012, 10:01 AM

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RedGarnet222

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I am absolutly amazed at the amount of nice quilts that you have been able to make in this amount of time! WOW.

11-03-2012, 10:02 AM

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justflyingin

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Originally Posted by JoanneS

WOW! I'm curious how you wound up with so many 2-1/2" squares. Do you cut them from scraps as you finish quilts?

I have a whole bag of scraps leftover from backing quilts (or should I say multiple bags). Also, I've been the wonderful recipient of a lot of scraps type of fabric. I cut them into strips and squares as per the Bonnie Hunter method (except I don't do bricks). Then, I try to make something with them. Since we have a charitable organization, it is a constant need. We give quilts to poor people and single moms or just working poor who need them.

Last year alone I did 80 quilts (all bed sized). This year it is fewer, but I've finished over 20 this fall--but have a lot of tops waiting to be finished. I'm not embarrassed by that as I made tops when I didn't have batting. We give out a lot of these quilts over Christmas time...so I need to finish them soon so I can focus on my own family.

But the bag of squares was large! It took literally several hours to sew them together the first time and I can sew with much concentration and I chain stitch and have a Janome 7700.

11-03-2012, 10:06 AM

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jojosnana

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Holy Toledo you need to rest! I can't believe what you have accomplished with scraps....amazing.

11-03-2012, 10:10 AM

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lfstamper

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HOLY COW! You have your own scrappy slide show - great job on all of them!

11-03-2012, 10:27 AM

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barny

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Golly, all of your quilts are beautiful. It would take me from September to now to figure out how to make one quilt!. You are a wonderful sewer. Your concentration MUST BE VERY GOOD. Barny

11-03-2012, 10:29 AM

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DebraK

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you are my hero ;-) I absolutely love the red star sashing.

11-03-2012, 10:43 AM

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Tothill

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Wow I am amazed. After seeing the 16th quilt top I had to go back and check the date you started. I was thinking you must have started in Sept 2011 not this year.

You have done incredible work and have shown that a 2.5 inch square can look so incredibly different depending on how you use them.