Buffy: Braided Scraps

Scraps sorted by value:  light & dark.  A few mediums spice the mix.  Note:  coping borders. The strips hung too long on the design wall and stretched on their bias edges.

Cinday has an accuquiltgo cutter

Cindy tried out her new cutter making this charity quilt from scraps.

Camp Erin Quilt

One of the Rebels is an angel named Roberta. Every year she makes sure that 100 kids--those who've lost a family member--each gets a quilt. And she quilts most of them! These quilts are donated through Camp Erin, where kids, ages 7 to 17, go for a week in the summer to process their loss while having fun. When they arrive, they get a quilt, and they take it home to remember their experience. This year I donated this quilt top.

NYC Scraps

I had the good fortune to go to NYC for a quilting retreat hosted by Victoria last weekend. I took only a few solid fabrics and used scraps supplied by everyone else. Here's what came home with me. It's 72 x 80. I brought home some strips from the scrap pile, and am wondering about a border. Any ideas?

Orphan Blocks on Design Wall

It looked so fun, the participating Rebels took their blocks back home with them!

Grocery Bag III, 50"x80"

Improvisational Scrap Quilting Workshop

Buffy and I led a workshop yesterday for our local quilting guild. Ten talented and enthusiastic souls showed up with their scraps. We gave them 20 minutes to make each block, with Buffy's advice, "Don't think. Sew!" Look what they made in the first hour! We couldn't get it all in one photo.




Buffy added the dark and light strips, with Anna Williams inspiration. Aren't these gals amazing!

Take an Ugly...

A few years ago, when the Rebels group was beginning, we gave ourselves the assignment to "take an ugly and make something with it."

Some shopped for quilting fabric at the thrift store for the first time. I had an old, faded, holey piece from my sister-in-law, Bonnie, (the black floral background,) and sewed on some 4 patches from a charm pack experiment. The border is a long strip I picked up at an antique store. It looks like it was pieced from a garment. Were they going to make a rug with it?

Anyway, I thought it needed texture, so added embroidery floss ties and buttons from Grammy's button box. Ah, the memories. I used to play with those as a little girl.

This is my first experiment with "out of the box" quilt making, thanks to Buffy and the Rebels!