Another Scrappy Baby Quilt

I had no intention of making this a quilt, it was supposed to be the back of the Strip-pieced baby quilt below. Plans change. 

These were larger scraps and I didn't want to cut them for the strip pieces, since there were plenty. So I took this heap...

And made this scrappy baby quilt.  I didn't cut any of the pieces except to trim.  The center of the quilt is cross-hatch quilted.

Stash-Busting:  3 leftover pieces of Warm & Natural batting seamed together, 2 spools of leftover thread.  And the scraps and back, of course.

There are only a few very small strips of the backing fabric left over. 

Scrappy Baby Quilt

After I finished the Star Quilt & the Circle Patch Quilt from the Two-Fers pattern, I still had a pile of scraps left. In my continuing saga to use up all the fabric in my sewing room, I cruised the Internet looking for a good use for the scraps. 

The scrap heap.

Strip-piecing on 6 inch muslin foundation blocks.

47 X 47 inch baby quilt made from strip-pieced scraps.  The little blocks in the sashings are crazy quilted on the 6 inch foundation blocks, and then cut into 3 inch squares. I had to buy some backing fabric to finish the sashings and back.

I had a pile of larger scraps left over, too.  Originally, I pieced them together to become the back of the above quilt, but once done, I realized that with the backing fabric I'd already bought, I had enough to make another back and thus, another baby quilt, the same size!  

On the stash-busting front - for these 3 quilts, I used 4 spools of leftover thread, about 8 bobbins of leftover different colored threads, several yards of pieced together leftover batting, and about a yard and a half of muslin. 

The Two-Fers Surprise Quilt

I made a quilt at Christmas from a Quilt Soup Pattern  called Two-Fers that included the pattern for a second quilt, made from the remnants of the first quilt.  I thought the recipient only wanted the one quilt, but when I was showing her the pattern, she asked for the second quilt, too! 

Although we bought the material and some extra according to the pattern, there really wasn't enough to make the entire second quilt.  I had to piece together some of the remnants to get the squares and rectangles, and had to raid my stash for a bit of 4 more fabrics.

I thought I'd machine-applique the circles on...yeah, well, my skills aren't up to that.  I ended up hand-appliquing the circles.  With some supervision.

Dinah kept swatting my hand every time I passed the needle through the fabric and and pulled the thread. 

 

The front of the quilt.

There wasn't enough of the orange fabric to complete the back.  So I grabbed strips of leftover fabric and started sewing them together.  Still didn't have enough, so I took some of the border fabric  and sewed it to the bottom.  The circle is an extra, and I appliqued it to the back.