Recently I decided to buckle down and use up my fabric scraps. I've always been pretty good about using my smaller pieces by making hand warmers/booboo bags and catnip toys, and donating unusable pieces to others for stuffing oer beds or arts and crafts for kids. But I wanted to tackle something more substantial that will have a longer lifespan in our home, as the other items were generally made for sale.
A few months ago I found a quilt block template at the bin store, and snatched it up because it was a great deal. I didn't actually expect to make a quilt myself, but thought it would be a neat tool to have in my sewing space - if perhaps one day in the far far future I would go full grandma and add quilting to my repertoire 
Well, the day has come. I have gone full grandma 
In the past few weeks I have gone through my scraps and cut them into the 5 shapes required for this template, and today, despite having a thousand other more pressing things to do, I decided to finally sew together one block. My goal is a twin sized quilt, so one block is a mere drop in the bucket, but it's a start!
I've made a significant dent in my scraps, but I believe I will need 96 blocks to complete a 60x90" quilt. I've got roughly 40 blocks cut out - I definitely have to do more other sewing to make enough scraps to complete this project 
my ultimate goal is to use only small scraps from other projects to complete the quilt top. The backing will be a different story. I haven't decided what it will look like, but it will likely be pieces together in some manner as well. As for the batting and actual quilting process - I'll likely leave that up to a longarmer who knows what they're doing!
my ultimate goal is to use only small scraps from other projects to complete the quilt top. The backing will be a different story. I haven't decided what it will look like, but it will likely be pieces together in some manner as well. As for the batting and actual quilting process - I'll likely leave that up to a longarmer who knows what they're doing!I don't want to sew too many blocks before I have them all cut out, because I am able to get multiple pieces from some of my scraps. To make a cohesive scrappy quilt (can a scrappy quilt be cohesive? I'm going to try!) I want to ensure that the repeated prints are spread throughout the entire quilt, and not too densely packed in a small area.
Wish me luck! This will be a long, ongoing process 
