Wednesday, May 16, 2018

At every Guild business meeting this year we’ve been bringing home a small bag of cut-up scraps. We are to make a 12.5″ block from the fabric in the bag and, at the end of the Guild season, we’ll put the blocks together for Community Quilts.

I’ve kept up quite well but I got behind in April. At the May Guild meeting we were encouraged to take extra bags because they needed 20 for each quilt top, and I also think the Program Committee didn’t want any bags of scraps left over.

Tomorrow night (and Friday) we will be putting the blocks together. When they were counting up the blocks on Tuesday they said they needed more; I told them I had four blocks at home that I’d finish by our meeting Thursday.

So that’s what I did all day – four blocks done and one Splendid Sampler block as well. It is hard to find a traditional block or even a pattern that will match the various pieces in our bags. Most of my inspiration comes from my Quilter’s Block a Day Calendar. I cut as many pieces to size as possible and then fill in the rest with whatever I have left.

I thought I had hit the jackpot on one of the blocks when I was able to cut all the pieces to match the pattern – sadly the block I cut for was only nine inches. Can you tell which one has an add-on border?