pink/black/white scrappy tube quilt

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11-13-2009, 09:31 PM

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omak

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I will HELP you!
They will rue the day that they let us in there (oh, yes! I will be there, too, and I have a PLAN!) :wink:
I was thinking about how to make those tube quilts scrappy, and I was reminded of a tip I read in some book.
The lady cut full width strips, a whole bunch of different ones. Then, she cut one in half and started sewing the strips, just butting the next one up against the one that was running out.
She didn't think that there was much waste (and, if you are in to scrappy, there will not be ANY waste <g>) ... but, it allows the colors to move through the quilt, be scrappy, but not too many of a certain combination to look stilted - - if that is a good descriptive word.
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11-13-2009, 10:25 PM

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wvdek

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This turned out great. Good job.

11-13-2009, 10:34 PM

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sewnsewer2

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Very nice job and your strips match perfectly!

11-14-2009, 12:57 AM

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charismah

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Originally Posted by SaraSewing

Help me understand how you did it scrappy? The tutorial said to make long pieces of 2.5 inch wide. So did you have shorter lengths to cut into the triangles, or what? I absolutely love this one!!

I have a basket full of scraps ( strips) cut 2.5 inches wide. SO I just grabbed all of my pink and black strips from that basket sewed them together and then sewed a big white strip to them to make the tube. I did color coordinate these scraps...but you don't have to do that..there will be a clash of color no matter what you do because every other square you cut will have the opposite color combo--so you can mix and match. DId I answer what you wanted me to? I had different lengths..because I used scraps ...when you cut a tube you will see that the first and last cut will be HST ( you can make them all HST..if you wanted to) ..let me know if i didn't tell you what you wanted to know.