In an effort to use up scraps, especially my snippet scraps, I did allow myself to start one Quarantine Project -- but just one! I have too many other things that need to be finished and too many Island Batik projects for the rest of this year to start too many new things!
I started making these 6.5" scrappy blocks out of my snippets and strings about two weeks ago -- and have already managed to make a pile of blocks! They alternate (mostly) between a string row, a snippet row, a string row, a snippet row, and then a final string row.
I have six purple blocks...
...three green blocks and one aqua block...
...two yellow, one orange, and one pink...
and finally, three brown blocks.
I don't have any sort of plan for these blocks just yet. I have piles of blue, teal/aqua, and green scraps ready to go for my next sets of blocks. I have been sewing the snippet rows as leaders-and-enders sometimes when I have been working on other projects.
I will also put together a tutorial for next week on making these blocks. They can be adapted to any size and it's not necessary to use a paper foundation, but I find it does help me some.
It will be fun to see more of these blocks come together and how you use them, Alison. I really love getting to tidy things up and hope you enjoy your space when it is complete!
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to finish up a couple of projects that have a time constraint...my grandson will be due in the first week of May!
ReplyDeleteWhen those are done, it is on to organizing and using up some of my scraps.
I love your blocks! It will be fun to see what you do with them!