Oh Scrap! : Hands2Help Finish

 I was up quite late last night finishing up the binding, but I did it!  I finished my Hands2Help Donation quilt just in time!

I think I started making these blocks back in December of last year.  The initial vision for the quilt was to only use rainbow-colored prints.  For months, the making of the blocks were few and far between.  I just didn't come across much of the right fabrics.   I soon found myself adding in striped fabrics.

I think in April, I had finished less than half of the amount of blocks I needed for my quilt.  The Hands2Help Challenge was the kick in the pants I needed to get this one across the finish line.

I also dropped the striped fabric requirement and just used whatever scraps I had.

It is a fun, bright, and happy quilt.  Perfect for donating to someone who needs a quilty hug. I was able to find a fun geometric print for the backing in my stash.  I usually send my H2H quilts to Mercyful Quilts or to Quilty Hugs, but this year I will just be adding this one to my stack of Compassion Quilts - where it will be bringing a smile to someone at the local hospital.

A HUGE thanks to Sarah over at Confessions of a Fabric Addict for hosting this event.  I have been participating for almost a decade.  If you want to see what quilts others are donating, check out her final link up which I think starts today!

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It is now your turn to share what you are making with scraps.  Here are the details for linking up: 

• 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.
• If you are linking to a blog post, I ask that you link back to my blog somewhere in your post. So if you are writing about scraps, just get into the habit of including a link as there will be a linky party available every week!
• If you are using Instagram, please use the hashtag #ohscrap.
• This is a party so remember to socialize and comment on the posts of others.
• Following my blog is not necessary but it sure would be great if you do! 

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Oh Scrap! : Hands2Help Progress

 A lot of my interactions with scraps this week was sorting and putting them away.

I did get one lonely string block completed.

The real accomplishment is I finished up the 28 16-patch blocks I needed to finish my Hands2Help Challenge quilt for this year.  I was really wanting to make all of the blocks from striped fabric, but I really don't have the time to search for them.

This week I hope to add these 28 to the 28 already up on my design wall.  I am sure I will need to move things around a bit before I sew up the top.  

But I am determined to finish this quilt by the end of May!

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It is now your turn to share what you are making with scraps.  Here are the details for linking up: 

• 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.
• If you are linking to a blog post, I ask that you link back to my blog somewhere in your post. So if you are writing about scraps, just get into the habit of including a link as there will be a linky party available every week!
• If you are using Instagram, please use the hashtag #ohscrap.
• This is a party so remember to socialize and comment on the posts of others.
• Following my blog is not necessary but it sure would be great if you do! 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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Linking up:

Confessions of a Fabric Addict (Hands2Help Challenge)

This month Bella Solids are 20% off at Fat Quarter Shop.

Is it time to add a few to your stash?

Help2Help Quilt Drive

 I am a little slow to the party but I am participating in the Hands2Help challenge going on over at Confessions of a Fabric Addict.  I have participated every year for at least a decade.

I signed up months ago but have just recently been thinking about what project I am going to designate.  Almost all of the quilts I work on lately would probably qualify but I wanted to choose a project that is made with fabric from my stash/scraps.

I have decided to finish up an existing project - my 16 patches made from brights and whites.

As of today, I have 28 blocks completed.  To make the size quilt I desire, I need another 28 blocks completed.  I will have the month of May to sew them up, finish the quilt top and assemble it.  I haven't decided if I am going to send it off to one of the great organizations highlighted by the challenge or just make it a Compassion quilt.  Whatever I decide, it will definitely be donated!

If you are interested in finding out more about the challenge, you can go here.  

There is still time to sign up and get sewing!

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Hands2Help Finish

It is Friday again and I have another finish to share with all of you.

Late last year, I needed to come up with some scrap quilt ideas to use up some of my low volume scraps.  I decided to pull my Two Bits pattern and start a new RSC quilt.  I would make the Churn dash variation in the RSC color and frame it in some low volume strips.  

I went with the straight layout with the blocks "kissing".

It used up a lot of my scraps and for the most part, I am pretty pleased with how it turned out. 

(I still don't like the gray pieces that snuck in but I guess I decided I could live with it as I didn't replace the blocks. Ha!)

I put a bright happy yellow backing on it and quilted it with some swirls.  I also joined a bunch of striped and rainbow colored leftover binding pieces to frame this one up. 

I had just enough and it looks great!

This quilt is going to be donated as part of the Hands2Help event going on right now.  

I am going to donate it to Covered In Love.  In about a week I am getting a big box of blocks from them and will be finishing them up into a bunch of quilts.  So I will just include this one (and maybe one or two other quilts hanging around) into the box that gets shipped back.

  

It is hard to believe that all of these quilts were all made from the same pattern.  

...and all came out of the scrap bin!

You can head over to The Academic Quilter to read even more about the event.

A big thank you and loud applause to Mari for taking over this event this year!

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The Fat Quarter Shop is holding a Spring Cleaning sale.  

Time to take advantage of some great prices!!

Hands2Help 2022

Every year in the spring, there is a fantastic event - it is called Hands2Help.  Over the years, this event has prompted thousands of quilts to be donated to various organizations.

I think I have been participating since 2015.

To read more about this event, head on over to this post at The Academic Quilter.  The event is usually hosted by Sarah over at Confessions of a Fabric Addict but due to personal reasons, she was unable to this year.  So the wonderful Mari stepped up and offered to take it over for 2022.

Hands2Help is a comfort quilt challenge where quilters from all corners of the country, and many from other countries, make and donate comfort quilts. This will be the twelfth year of the challenge! You can make as many quilts as you like, but the challenge only asks for you to make and donate one quilt in any size by June 1, 2022. 

All of the quilts in this post are some of the ones I have donated to this event in the past.  The quilts don't have to be extra fancy.  Pulling fabric from your stash or even using your scraps is all that is needed.

I hope you decide to join in the fun.  It is for such a great cause!

I am already signed up for this year and busy planning what quilts I will make.

If you need some ideas for what to make, I am offering a 20% discount on all of my patterns in my Etsy Shop for this event.  Just use the promo code HANDS2HELP when you check out.  I will be offering this discount promo through April 9th 2022.

This includes all of my Scrap Mixology Modules so get out 

those scraps and start sewing!

Let's have the best year yet for the event!

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More Scrappy Love

 I decided to donate one more quilt from the stack of finished quilts to Covered in Love.

Remember this RSC quilt I finished last year?  Well it has been kicking around the house just waiting for a new home.  As I was sending off a box to Covered In Love for the Hands2Help quilt challenge, I decided to stuff this one in as well.

The blocks for this quilt were super simple and all of the fabric for the quilt top came out of the scrap bins.  Turning my scraps into donation quilts just seems to make sense to me.  So many people donate their leftovers to me so it feels good for me to then pass them on to some great organizations.

I will definitely revisit this design one of these years.  Maybe I will switch the placement of lights and darks to see how it changes things up.

I am definitely ready to sew some scraps!

If you want to read more about the Hands2Help quilt drive event or Covered in Love just follow the links to read how you can participate.

Have a great weekend everyone!

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HRT Quilt for Hands2Help

 Hurray!  I was able to get my Half Rectangular Triangle (HRT) Quilt onto my quilt frame and get it finished this week.

I started making these blocks clear back in August on 2020 as a Rainbow Scrap Challenge project.  For each color, I made about 14 blocks that measure about 4 x 8".  I used the Creative Grids Perfect Rectangle Ruler to make them.  No trimming required!

(Rulers are available at Fat Quarter Shop or Pineapple Fabrics)

You can also use half of the Tri-Rec ruler but you will need to make smaller blocks.

(This ruler set is currently on sale at Connecting Threads)

I kept the quilting simple with some horizontal straight lines that were irregularly spaced.  It gave the quilt a wonderful texture.

I used a brown print for the backing and bound it with a fun stripe.  There are not a lot of florals in this one so I wanted to keep the masculine feel to the quilt.

This quilt will be going to Happy Chemo as part of the Hands2Help quilt drive.  It will go in the box with the postage stamp quilt I finished a few weeks ago.

All of the fabrics for the top came out of the scrap bin.  I usually play with color a bit more but I really wanted this one to be a bt more traditional patchwork - very utilitarian and ready to be used!

A big thanks to Sarah for organizing this event!

Have a fabulous weekend Everybody!

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Donating One from the Stash

 I usually try and donate about 4 quilts to various organizations as part of the Hands2Help  quilt drive.  Sarah over at Confessions of a Fabric Addict hosts this event.  Every spring I find myself frantically  finishing up a number of projects for donation quilts.

With so many finished quilts around my house, I decided to do things a bit differently this year.

What a relief it has been!

Remember this lovely scrap quilt I finished last year?

Well, it had not found a home yet so I decided to send it off to Covered in Love.

There are very few florals prints in the quilt and the colors have a masculine feel.

If you want to read more about this quilt, you can read the original post.  This design is something I will definitely revisit again.

If you want to learn more about the Hands2Help quilt drive, you can check it out here.

I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!

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PSP20 and Hands2Help

 I can't remember who started the Postage Stamp Pandemic (PSP20) but I was quick to hop on board.   Having finished a postage stamp quilt not too long ago, I decided to bump up the size of my cut squares to 2".  The memory of sewing up all those smaller sizes was still very fresh in my mind!

All of the fabric for the top of this quilt all came out of scrap bins.  Every time I would come across a chunk of solid fabric in a shade I had not used before, I would make a block

For the print squares, I really focused on cutting up scraps I am tired of seeing or those that I knew I would have a hard time using.  So a few odd panel pieces, novelty fabrics and lots of multi-colored prints fell under the rotary cutter.

When it came time to quilt it, I decided to use the piecing as my marking and stitched in a double eight pattern.  It was easy placing those loops in the appropriate square and knowing that my spacing was going to be just right.

I even used a bunch of leftover binding scraps to make a scrappy binding.  I don't often do this but it worked perfectly for this quilt.  

For the backing, I used an orange/blue print I picked up at Connecting Threads.  Their clearance section is my favorite place to get affordable large cuts for quilt backs.

Originally, I laid out all the colors randomly across the quilt and was not very happy with how it looked.  We all know I love a challenge, so I started playing with the color hues of the blocks.  I was really pleased with how it turned out.

I will be donating this quilt to Happy Chemo as part of the Hands2Help quilt drive.  I have sent quilts to Emily over at Ems Scrap Bag for quite a few years now.  Cancers Sucks - so if I can bring a bit of comfort to someone going through chemo, I am more than happy to do so!

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