Back Blocks

Strange title huh?

I've been making blocks from all those flannel strips. I sewed all the like widths together then cut 30" strips. Now I'm sewing the strips together until I get a 30" square block.

 

I'm not sewing the blocks together yet. I figure someday when I need a back I'll sew the blocks together to the size I need. I have 12 made so far and probably have enough strips to make another 12.

I'm really enjoying making these: no precise cutting or sewing, kinda brainless.

I have QADS

Quilting Attention Deficit Syndrome

After I finished the Friendship Triangles quilt I started thinking about my next quilt, I pulled out the fabric and pattern...hmmm, fabric won't work with this pattern, need a different pattern...found a new pattern...No, can't start a new quilt until the Friendship quilt is quilted...thought I had back fabric for it already...hmmm, I have a lot of back fabrics (I keep large amounts of fabric on the cardboard bolt thingies) I should make up the backs and put them with the appropriate quilt so everything will be together...hmmm, don't like the back fabric I had for the Friendship quilt...actually I like it too much to put it on a back I'd rather have it on the front as a focal fabric I wonder if I have any fabrics in my stash that will go with it...I could piece a back out of my scrap flannels....pulled out the bin with the scrap flannels...there's a lot of scraps in this bin...Ohhhh, Mary of NeedledMom is so nice she sent me the paper piece patterns she used for her place mats....love the place mats I think I want to make them in pink...no, focus, you need a back for the Friendship quilt...hmmm, what quilt did these two back fabrics go to? well I know this fabric goes with this quilt so I'll put the fabric and quilt next the sewing machine...how much yardage of this fabric do I have? is it enough for the Hot Pocket quilt?...no, I got the flannels out I should do something with them first.

See what I mean...I've been going in this circle for the last 3 days.

Most of my quilts have flannel on the back, so I ended up with all of these really long pieces of different widths.  I cleaned up the edges some. I have an idea on how to put these together to make a back.

 

I also cut out a Turning Twenty quilt (okay, half the fabrics where already cut must have been a past QADS outbreak).

 

I do have some yardage that I didn't cut up.

 

Cut some 2.5 inch strips, 10.5 inch squares and some 6.5 inch squares.

 

 

Still have a little more in the bin to go through.

 

Now I have this pile of pieces and parts. I am NOT going to make a flannel scrap quilt.

 

Anybody want the pieces and parts?

 

Shoot, I still don't have a back for the Friendship Triangles quilt...maybe I should go shopping...

 

How did my sewing room get to be such a mess?

 

 

 

 



And Another Done

My first finish for 2013 (depending on your definition of "finish", it's not quilted yet).

 

My piecing was pretty good (all the triangles have points) until I put the four quadrants together. I'm going to quilt it by stitching-in-the-ditch.

I did the math...1764 triangles, 840 1.5 inch squares. It started with a charm pack given to me by Nancy and it includes lots of my scraps. I followed Bonnie (Quiltville) Hunter's advise - ugly fabric looks good when it is cut small enough and there are some truly ugly fabrics in this quilt...but I bet you can't find them.

I love scrap quilts!