Oh Scrap! : Zip It!

I have finished all my donation scrap quilts so I thought it was time to start another one.

We have a shelf in the Many Hands and Many Hearts warehouse (formerly my home office) that holds the larger scrap chunks.  I pulled some blues, pinks, greens and purples that I thought might look nice together.  Lots of florals and lots of tone on tone.

I thought I would make a zipper block.  These blocks measure 8.5 x 10.5"unfinished. My plan is for every block to have blue in it.  I also want a floral and a tone on tone in each block.  I am hoping this will give each block some contrast.

Here are some blocks I made on Saturday.  I wish I had considered the green butterflies as a print versus a tone on tone.  Thos blocks are a bit busy and I am disappointed I didn't get the contrast I wanted.  I will have to try and work them in, or they might just go in the orphan block pile.  Right now, it is a bit early to tell.

My plan is to make approximately 40 blocks and then make my decision whether I want the blocks to run vertically or horizontally.  I got this quilt design idea from a quilt Diann at Little Penguin Quilts donated to Many Hands.

It looks a mess right now, but I am hopeful it will be a nice scrappy quilt when I get it done.

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March of the Quilt Finishes

Finally, it appears the quilt pipeline is filled, and lovely finishes are getting completed at a wonderful rate. Here are a few from earlier this week.

We received a LOT of lovely green Jewel Box blocks.  We still have hundreds of blocks to work thru and turn into quilts.  This is the 13th quilt made from that block drive.

(Sorry about the shadowing on all of these quilts.  The sun was just going down and I worried it was going to rain the next day.)

We also finished the Veteran quilt made from a bunch of orphan blocks.  We have a bolt of this camouflage print so it was an easy choice for the back of this quilt.

At our next board meeting we are going to discuss adding another organization to our recipient list.  We are hoping to add something that serves Veterans.  So, I have been pushing a number of RWB quilts into production.  It might take a couple months to work all the bugs out but I want to be ready for any combination of quilts the organization requests.  

This quilt top was made and donated by Mina.

This lovely quilt was made using the scrappy slab blocks that Marci sends us.  I pulled a dark navy to use as the sashing.  Local sewing elf Karen sewed this one up for us.  I think I have another kit for these slab blocks ready to be sewn.  I found a rich emerald green solid we are hoping to use.

I picked up a few quilts from our longarm quilters so I am sure there will be more to share soon.  I am so pleased that there is now such a nice variety of quilts being completed and donated.  I have so many of you to thanks for that!

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The First Split 4-Patches

The current block drive is the Split 4_patch in bright colors for kids.  We added some to the Happy Blocks we made in our last kids' block drive....

Here is the first quilt!

Don't they look fabulous together?

This quilt has a fun fruit theme.  Lots of pink so we just decided to add a pink flannel that Kristin sent for the back.  Really looking forward to playing more with these blocks.

This quilt measures 56" x 64".

I admit, we just got this top and backing from Cindy.  But I loved it so much, I put it right on my frame and quilted it up.  I loved the colors and ended up taking it with me to a local guild meeting.  As I sat hand sewing the binding, I knew it would draw quilters in and I could tell them about Many Hands.

Cindy also sent in this fun gold Kaffe Fassett top and backing.  I usually only quilt block drive quilts and I send the donated tops out to local quilters.  But I sometimes break "the rules" so I can spend a bit of time with some.

This lovely quilt top was sent in by Linda/Margie (a Mother/Daughter team).  The pattern may be Cottage Bleu. They sent in quite a few tops long ago and they were held up for a bit.  But I now have local quilter Laurie working on their stuff and they are finally getting done.  Laurie loved this quilt and finished it off beautifully with a tighter twisted quilting.  We also want to thank Karen for the lovely yellow/blue floral backing. (The green butterflies were a scrap from a previous quilt.)

If this quilt looks familiar, you are correct.  We received two jelly rolls so we made two similar quilts.  Board Member Pam sewed this quilt top together.  We had this lovely green batik that Karen sent for the backing.  Laura quilted up this one too.

I was expecting to share these quilts last week but it just didn't happen.  

Better late than never!

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Oh Scrap! : Orphans no More

I don't keep track of who sends in orphan blocks.  They all just go into a big pile and occasionally I pull some out to finish up into a quilt.

I received 18 of these little blocks.  They were not all the exact same size and I thought needed a bit of help.  Novelty scraps to the rescue!

I didn't trim any of the original blocks up.  I just sewed on a fun, colorful frame in bright colors.  These prints all came out of the scrap bin.  I did trim the blocks up at this point to 10.5" square.

I couldn't use all 18 blocks but I was able to find a home for 16 of them.  It is 40" square and will make a cute quilt for an infant/toddler.  It might be a bit before this one gets quilted - there are many other quilts in line before it. I just wanted to play with some scraps and it was a fast, fun project.

(Someone heard me say these blocks needed some cuteness so Arthur wanted to share his adorable toe beans in the photo.)

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A Few Finishes

It has been about a week since I shared some finishes.  Things seemed to have slowed a bit around here.  I think the holiday lull has finally caught up.  Hopefully after this week we start seeing quilts move a bit faster.

First up is another patriotic churn dash quilt.  We still have quite a few blocks in stock from the last block drive.  I really like this combination of big and little blocks.

A nice flag print for the back thanks to Karen.  I think this lovely Veteran quilt is the 14th quilt we made from that block drive.

Barb is one of the elves that make quilt tops from donation fabric.  This one was made from one of the Three Yard Quilt books.  I sent her one-yard pieces of three coordination fabrics, and she chooses a design.  This lovely quilt doesn't photograph well, but up close it is really rich.

We put a nice, dark blue print that was sent in by Lynnette on the back.  I quilted this one with some ruffled flowers.

Mari made this fun quilt top.  Love all that dotted fabric and the shadow effect.

It is actually a pretty tall quilt.  Poor Janet is on her tiptoes.  It is hard to see but we used a fun multi-colored confetti print for the back.  We are going to send this one off to a teen - it should fit nicely on a twin bed.

Most of the longarm quilters are back to working on Many Hands and Many Hearts quilts.  I am still getting pulled away for various meetings and fundraising.  Sadly, our suppliers of batting have all raised their prices so we are hustling to raise the funds to keep stocked up.  I appreciate all of you that include a few dollars with your blocks - it all adds up and makes a difference!

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Oh Scrap! : Orphan Blocks and Panels

Here at Many Hands and Many Hearts, we do get various panels and orphan blocks included in packages containing blocks for the block drives.  It is always fun to see what shows up.  We don't often get to use them but Janet decided to pull a bunch of RWB blocks and lay out her first orphan block quilt. Here is the top all put together.

I think she did a pretty good job.  Now she did not have to figure out how to sew all that middle section together.  I have to admit, that took me a LONG time to figure out.  But I did get it done and we hope to get it quilted up soon.  We don't have a lot of completed Veteran quilts so we are trying to fix that.  We still have a number of churn dash blocks from the last block drive, but I think there will be another RWB block drive in the near future. 

What block do you think it should be....

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Connecting Threads is having a Finishing Sale.

Time to finish some projects!

 

Oh Scrap! : A Scrappy Finish

I was able to get the scrappy rail fence quilt onto my longarm frame this week and it is now completed.  Hurray!

The quilt top was made from a bunch of scraps leftover from backings and bindings.  I pulled anything that was blue, green and yellow.  I really made a nice dent in the scraps!

The back was also sewn from a bunch of leftovers. The blue fabric were chunks left over from previous backings.  A few people donated this extra wide backing print.  That means I had lots of bits to play with!

The lovely floral in the center was unlabeled.  It might have come from my stash.  I know I pulled a bunch of one-yard cuts I knew I would never use when Many Hands and Many Hearts first started out.  I bought some of this fabric over 12 years ago.

I pulled more bits to make another scrap quilt.  I haven't started cutting yet.  I got distracted by a panel I came across - which I hope will become a quilt top this week.  We shall see how far I get!

Hope all of you are safe from the fires and the winter weather!

It is scary out there!

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• This linky party is for any scrappy project - It can be in-process or a finished piece.
• You can link up your blog post (not your homepage please) or Instagram photo from the past week that features your use of scraps.
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• If you are using Instagram, please use the hashtag #ohscrap.
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