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| The Blues |
Rainbow Quilters, Rotorua, were given 5 rubbish bags full of fabric scraps. We meet every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month. Here's a link to our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/181844985351307/
After sorting them by colour, I brought home the browns and blues. I challenged myself to work in colours I don't normally "do".
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| The Browns |
On sorting through the fabrics, they are all CATS! There must be more than 100 different cat fabrics here. I noticed a lot of the fabric was cut into 8inch squares, so I created this quilt with half square triangles.
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| 180 triangles of scrap |
I still had lots of left overs, and noticed most of them were 8x 5 inch rectangles, so I created this "reflections" quilt. The pale fabric has butterflies.
I still had a pile of fabric, so I cut that into 2 1/2 inch strips, joining the fabric with "like" colour.
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| A wall of strips |
A new technique I discovered. Tube Strip Piecing. Join 6 strips together into a tube, and cut 90 degree triangles from the strips, rotating the top and bottom of the triangle. Unpick the short bit, and voila, SQUARES!
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| Tube Strip Quilt |
I now had a pile of scraps. I cut 50 x 1 1/2 inch orange squares for continuation of colour, and just sewed small bits of fabric to small bits of fabric. The pieces grew, and I just kept adding bits of fabric. Every now and then I would stop sewing, and put the "blocks" on the wall in about the same size columns. In some cases, I added more scraps to some of the blocks, and put more blue in, as it was quite brown.
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| The orange squares add a spot of colour |
A dark blue and orange border. Another quilt top finished, from leftovers.
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| Leftovers Quilt |
These are the fabric crumbs that are left. I took them to club night at quilting, and the other members found a use for the crumbs.
