Blue Scrappy Challenge



Basket of Blue Fat Quarters




sewing seams on crazy patch with the flip and sew method

I just love the random and carefree way of piecing crazy patch blocks.  I haven't done it for many years and I am realizing that I miss doing this style of work.  As of this week I now have 3 blue crazy blocks.  I think I'd like to do something special in a crazy block for each color of the month in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  Wouldn't it be fabulous to have a set of blocks at the end of the year in a dozen different color ways?


Squares and bricks in blue dishes & Testing out snowflakes

I've been gathering up any Accu-Cut snowflake dies I can find around my school and at my friends  home and school.  Next I will check with my quilting neighbor.  Yes, two lucky people I know happen to have the studio cutter by Accu-Quilt.  I also have access to the smaller model at my school.  I have cut about 7 wool snowflakes using 3 different dies.  I don't think I'm done yet!  Every place I look they have a slightly different cutter, so I'm getting plenty of variety.

I've got a busy weekend of sewing planned.  I will also sew during the Packers - Bears game on Sunday.  GO PACKERS!

I will make posts to update you on my blue scrap progress.

Scrappy Challenge in Blue



Un-Embellished Crazy Patch Block in Blue

I am participating in Andrea's Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  Blue scraps have been designated for the month of January and here is what I've been developing.


I've been wanting to get back into crazy quilting.  So the blue scrap challenge came along and this block is the first thing I pieced. 

I have some ideas of a direction I'd like to go and hope to extend the block into a longer rectangle.  Perhaps it will develop into some kind of winter wall hanging.

Ready to sort one box!



Choice Blue Pieces for the Challenge this Month

The string blocks I made so far are a fine start, but I think I'll make another set and join them up into a larger shape.  It was a good way to recycle some of our old computer paper. 

papers trimmed to square for the string blocks



Working at ripping out foundation paper.

 I may try phone book papers next and see if the paper rips away a little easier.  It really is not my favorite part of the process.  I did not want to piece on muslin and leave it in, because that gets to be too heavy to quilt through.



Completing the crossing seams for joining 4 string blocks





More to Do!

 I'm glad it's only the second weekend in January, because now I have more ideas to keep going for the rest of the month.  This is going to be a fun challenge.