It’s Been a Slow Journey

My scrappy trip around the world journey, that is. I pulled all of the 2½” strips from my basket of fabric strings…probably about a year ago to start this project. I made six blocks at one of my small group retreats last year.

And then I packed up my pile of a bajillion strips and that’s how it stayed until last week when I had the {table top sewing} epiphany. Wroking on this project in small snippets is no-brainer – once you’ve made one, you literally never need to look at the instructions again. And these blocks are really fast to make. If you’re working with pre-cut strips like me, you could easily make the quilt top in a weekend.

I re-sorted my pile of strips into some more manageable sets, ending up with enough for three different quilts. The pink-ish version is the one I’m working on first. I sewed 18 srips sets while watching Clue on Amazon Prime video last week (that movie is still as awesome today is it was in the 80s Maybe more because I’m sure there were joke that totally went over my head when I was a kid.).

Two helpful things to have on hand while you’re making these blocks – a pair of spring loaded scissors to quickly snip off excess length from strips and Clover Wonder Clips for keeping the strip sets together after you cut them.

(If you aren’t making this quilt, you have to seam rip the strip sets at one point – a good activity to do while catching up on your DVR shows).

My other piles of piles of strip sets are very different color-wise; one is more boyish with lots of green and orange:

And the other is a very limited palette for me (only 5 or 6 colors!).. I didn’t photograph it but I’ll do that next time I update on this quilt project.

Funny how one “easy” scrap quilt project has now turned into three different quilts…