I have been working with scraps lately and while working with some tiny bits and bobs of scraps, my head was thinking about making a crumb quilt.
So while I’m dreaming about this crumb quilts of mine, I thought I’ll share some ideas on how you can make crumb quilts using up your teeny little itty bitty scraps!
If you’ve never come across a jelly roll rug before, well you’re in for a treat. I am sharing a newly finished jelly roll rug that I just made.
This year, the mystery quilt is called the Christmas Time Quilt-a-Long!
Now, I don’t celebrate Christmas but I do love the season. With all the glitters and decorations, it is always magical. And I love the joyful colours of Christmassy fabrics.
I have been working hard trying to keep my scraps in control. The more projects we work on and finish, the more scraps we’ll end up with. Today I’m updating a little start to my scrappy ocean wave quilt.
Now that I have come back to cross-stitching, I am making more time to sit and enjoy a little bit of hand-stitching or cross-stitching with Audible on or a movie.
Usually, I also have my little one in my arm watching tv with me too, so my choice of tv would be all the kids move or Blippi. That’s why Audible books are on my ear while we enjoy the cozy times together. Lately, I have been enjoying the more available selections from Audible Plus Catalogue. Some great fiction selection there too, which makes the subscription much more worth it as we can get more books a month.
I am not sure about you, but I am a multi-project-at-one-time kind of crafter. I love being able to jump from one project to another! It keeps me motivated and excites me. P
But the downside of that, is the amount of things to keep tidy. There’s just so many things that can just be everywhere around the sewing room if things are not well kept together.
Hence, one thing I do is to at least give all of my project a home. When I am not working with them, they have to go back home. All of the related pieces.
So there are a couple of ways you can keep work in progress at one place, and in this post I’ll share some of my favourite ways.
While I was tidying up the scraps leftover, I couldn’t help myself to try out the new paper pad I received from Fat Quarter Shop and use up my scraps right away. These fabrics were leftover from the quilt I made, it is the Stacy Iest Hsu Halloween Collection HERE and the MODA grunge is Olivenite HERE.
I find it easier to use up as much of the fabric and sort them right away before I put them away out of sight.
There’s a lot of benefit to using up your scraps as much as you can before they are piled on with the other scraps.
For one, you are already working with a good mix of fabric colours and prints. If you make a small scrappy project, it will be quick and easy plus it’ll match your quilt!
As Malaysian, we celebrate our Independence Day in the month of August. 31st of August will be the date we were free, in Malay we called this Merdeka. This year of 2022 will be our 65th Year of Independence.
Hence, I’d like to call this my Merdeka Quilt.
If you’re wondering why the colors are the same as the American flag (Americana colours) except for the yellows, you can read more about the colour choices at the beginning of making this quilt HERE>.
America’s flag and the Malaysia flag is very much the same isn’t? Which is lucky for me because next time, I can also make the same stripes from lots of patterns available.
There are plenty of Americana Quilts Patterns out there that I can use too which makes it a lot more fun.
As with all the sampler quilts, this one was definitely an enjoyable one to make.
I get bored when piecing or cutting 100’s of the same size units, hence sampler quilt is my go-to quilts.
You can seee some of previous Sampler Quilts in my previous post below:
This time, I took the time to get some more Drone Photos just like when I did with Sewcialites Quilt! It is always exciting to get to do this and I ought to do it more often. Looking at quilts from far above is quite a view.
If you did join along, let me know how did you go?
I love all the fun cute blocks we have to make this time round. FQS always have super cute patterns and their sew-a-long are a lot of fun to join in.
I started off with these fabrics from Stacy Iest Hsu Halloween Collection HERE and as for the background, I’m using a MODA grunge background named Olivenite HERE. The pattern calls for a purple background, but I thought I’ll do something a little different with a yucky mushy green.All of the fabric were sent by Fat Quarter Shop.
You can use your stash, use your own choice of fabrics like I did or you can also get a Boo Crew Quilt Kit.
You can read more about the previous blocks in the previous post:
And here’s my finished quilt!!!
Isn’t it cute???
