In the comments of my last post, T. Holster asked, “Are you missing sewing or not much time to miss it?” YES, I MISS IT! As the saying goes, “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” I miss it so much that in my downtime I’m planning quilt projects for next year. I’d rather be sewing, but the sewing room, like the spare bedroom, is currently a dumping ground for everything during painting. So, the next best thing to sewing is making plans to sew.
As I mentioned in the last post, I need to sort and organize some of the scrap bins. Since my newly painted living room accent color will be blue, I'll need to make blue quilts. I've drafted and done the quilty math for two quilts already but that's not enough. The image below, found on Pinterest is perfect. A quick and easy quilt that will use up a ton of scraps. Funny how it took an hour of scrolling through Google, Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest to be inspired by the most basic quilt... HAHA! Thirty years of quilting experience, and I’m absolutely floored by this simple beauty.
With the new quilt plan ready, it was time to dive into the three blue scrap bins...light, medium, and dark. For this quilt, the focus is on using medium and dark blue fabrics. I yanked the light fabric bin because I have a bad habit of sneaking rogue colors into places they don’t belong.
Digging through scraps is always fun. I love bright colorful fabrics, they’re so cute, but not for this quilt. It’s time for adult Lea Anne to take charge and tell the little girl to hush, because she can be a bit annoying sometimes.
I also came across a few fabrics (the rogue I mention earlier) that didn’t seem to belong in the blue bins, so I figured I might as well take care of them now. They were hastily tossed into other bins with the promise of one day being neatly folded and stored with their friends.
And then there was this print. It has a magic trick, pair it with darker blues and, presto, it turns green! I was convinced my aging eyes were pulling a fast one on me, so I snapped a photo just to see if the camera would catch the chameleon act. It did! How strange!
After having about an hour of fun sorting through the fabric bins I have the initial fabric pull. They will be stored separately from the scrap bins. Initial because I can't decide if they all will be used in the quilt...
OR...
Option B - use only solid blue fabrics.
Option C - use only navy blue print fabrics and no solid blues.
Of course, the background fabric is also up in the air.
Option A - Do I go with solid white from yardage?
Option B - Scraps of solid whites in different shades of white.
Option C - Low volume white and cream prints.
Sigh... All the options will simmer in the brewing pot until I return to the sewing room and start stitching again.
The older I get, the more I like the simple quilt patterns. I have absolutely no desire to make another Dear Jane or Nearly Insane but I love the simplicity of your quilt! I can see it in several colorways, dark blue of course, but also Amish colors with a dark blue background. Your quilt will be lovely, I hope you finish your painting this coming week in time for Thanksgiving dinner. Then I hope you can find some time to sew, sew and even more sewing!
ReplyDeleteAll of the beautiful options!! You have such good colour vision that your final pull will be wonderful!
ReplyDeleteSounds like you are making your 2026 quilts work with your clean up goals. Though when working with scraps, it does seem we never get rid of as many as we think we have.
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