One of my favorite scrap quilters is Sally over at The Object of Design. I actually have met her in person a couple of times so I feel pretty special!
During the pandemic, she has hosted a few "scrap" giveaways - I really don't need any scraps but during her last giveaway, I commented that I was running low on low volume pieces. Well, I won and a package soon arrived on my doorstep!
She was very generous in fulfilling my need for low volumes but she also tucked some other unloved fabric in mix - as I tend to do when I send out fabric to other quilters :)
One of the fabrics she included is what she dubbed "the ugliest fabric on the planet". I have to chuckle because it is actually a nice large cut and when I saw it, I instantly knew I would use it first...not knowing it had been given the title.
I admit, I love purple and my sewing room is painted three shades of the color. In fact, you can see my ironing board legs are even painted.
Well, now my ironing board has been recovered in this floral.
Honestly, I don't love the piece. I am mostly happy that it was a big enough cut to work.
So I will be seeing this fabric every day!
(Yes, I am ashamed of my iron - it is an ancient Sunbeam that I have used for so long, I have worn the soleplate down to bare metal. But it still gets so hot I hate to get rid of it. I keep hoping I will discover some way to resurface or something. Any advice?)
I still have quite a bit of the fabric left. I have to agree with Sally that the floral does have an odd linear pattern to it - so I am sure I will be cutting it up small and using it in scrappy projects.
...now there were a few other pieces in the package that I found more troubling. Thank goodness you can hide away the unloved in the scrappy!
Or in a package off to another quilter ....Ha!
Thanks Sally for your generosity.
Now I can continue to make more blocks with scrappy backgrounds!
