SOMETHING QUICK & FUN TO DO!!

I am kind of a control "freak" when it comes to laying out my completed quilt squares when I am doing a quilt top.  I remember doing  the "Turning Twenty" pattern; which is cutting different sizes from a fat quarter and just mixing (not matching) the different cut pieces from your fat quarters. Well, O.C.D. me had to make sure each cut piece matched in the square.  SIGH!!!!

But, I found that I really could let "go" of the urge to match, and that it really is okay. LOL  I decided for my granddaughter's birthday in September, she will be nine, I would make her another doll quilt for her American Girl Doll.  She has two dolls, and I only made her one so far.   Bad Gramma!!!  So, my favorite all time quilt block is the log cabin.  So, I decided I would make her a doll quilt with this block and do it in 30's fabrics, which I have a lot of, and they are not a fabric of my choice anymore.

So low and behold .......... a thought occurred to me ......... I would cut strips 1 inch wide, making the strips come out to 1/2 inch when sewn ....... making a 3 inch block in the end. I will make 7 rows, 6 blocks to a row.  That is my plan at the moment.  I have been known to change things as I go along. LOL

So, I pulled out all my 30's fabrics (I had recently just colored coded them in bags, brilliant idea!) and fabrics that maybe could pass for 30's fabrics.  Separated all my one inch strips into groups by color.  Then, I placed one of each colored strip into a bag, and began to sew.  I started with the center square at 1 1/2", all in the same fabric.  From there, I pulled out a strip from the bag, not looking, and I used what I pulled out.


This is fun, fun project.  Goes together pretty quickly, well, at least I think for me:-)  I pull them out in sets of 3 at a time.  Lay out my 3 starting squares, and pull 3 strips out, 1, 2, 3.  I don't match them to any of the 3 I have out, I match them in the order I have them in line.  Hope that last statement wasn't to confusing.  LOL

Started color grouping cut strips!

Now, adding all strips to bag!

These are strips that I have already used in the current blocks I am working on.

These strips, along with the other strips in the bag, will all be added back into

the bag when I have run out of strips in the bag.  Hope I didn't loose anyone on that

last statement.  LOL  This way, you should end up with no two blocks being the

same.  (Notice, I said should).

WALL'A!!  Block Completed.  Only 41 more to make for the doll quilt:-)

If you have never done anything like this, I hope you give it a try.  I'll be posting the completed doll quilt in a couple of weeks.  I have a couple things to complete by end of September for an upcoming quilt show and some "odds & ends" that I never seem to get done.  I know, I am probably the only quilter that has "odds & ends" that never get done. LOL  It's an odd thing, I seem to be growing my fabric stash more than using it up?

Thanks for stopping bye...............

Sharon