Look at these beautifully laid out fabrics! That glorious rainbow of colour! I had such big plans back in 2020 - yes, that's right, 2020. It was a time of lockdowns and I was bored. A search online found this blog and her plans for a 'snap, scrap, sew-a-long'. Simple blocks designed to use up all of those left-over 2.5in pieces and some great plans included for layouts.
From either side of my layout table, the colours just looked wonderful together.
I had to pack it all up when I changed furniture in my sewing room and purchased a new machine. This project got shoved into a container and shelved until a couple of weeks ago, when I decided that I had had enough of the lid sliding off and falling out of the cupboard each time I slid the door open.
When I put the container onto the table and took the lid off, the fabric pieces sort of bubbled out and over the top, like they had decided they didn't want to be squashed anymore...
In this container, I found that I had packed away 170 x 6in blocks, all neatly pinned together into groups of 10 blocks, sorted by colour! As the call from the Very Snuggly Quilt program is for 48x60in quilts for teenage boys, I was able to use 80 blocks in this first quilt.....
Sadly, night-time indoor photos don't do the colours any justice. The blue-green quilt, above, has since been sewn together and has a backing and binding to match. It simply needs a good press and then quilting.
And... another 80 blocks in this second quilt...
... which will have a pieced backing of modern fabric with writing on it and the remaining 10 green blocks added in for some interest.
My goal for the next few days is to complete the sewing and make the backing for the yellow-grey-green quilt and then, figure out what quilts to make with the remaining fabrics. Do I want to make more of the 'snap-scrap' blocks, or, do I make something else from them? I am not sure.The block patterns can be found here
