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I've been saving the scraps from narrow, 1.5" border strips to sew into tiny 2.5" four-patches. Then, piecing them into these Triple Treat blocks using Quiltville's free leader/ender project. Such little pieces turn into something scrappy and wonderful. I think I'm going to make a bunch more of these so I can get mor variety. 
Sometimes simple piecing is just what you need. 

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Today I have a couple quilts that show how to pull colors together for a quilt. This won't work in every situation, but it is a good place to get started if you think you aren't good at color in practice. First, grab a focus fabric you like, or want to use for your color inspiration. Pull together colors that are in that fabric for your blocks. This one uses primary and some secondary colors. It was easy to pull out the blues, greens, reds, orange, and yellows. In the end, an effective quilt that uses a bunch ...

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Evidently, these tiny toolboxes are all the rage on the internet. We were at the home improvement warehouse and found them. We picked up a set, one for me, and one for my darling husband. 
I had some delightful purple felt to the drawers. I'm not sure where I'm going to put it. I do know that it needs a bunch of stickers. 

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Another striped quilt to use up those 2.5" strips. 

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I created this block similar to a log cabin that fits into the basic layout for charity quilts and cut the units from that big stack of blue strips I shared. The blocks finish at 12" by 6" so they fit into the 30" by 36" center of a simple lap/crip quilt. Perfect for charity quilts. I added the regular 1" and 3" borders.
I cut the main blocks and outer border from the same fabric and pulled some coordinating squares from my big stack of 6" squares. Easy! 

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I pulled this one together based on the rose print. Sometimes a plan comes together.
This one is full of modes of transportation. Helicopters, tractors, motor boats and sailboats.

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I sorted a bunch of 2.5" strips I have to decide what color t work with. I guess fate has selected blue. Expect to see a handful of blue quilts made with 2.5" strips. 

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Odd blocks tied together with borders.
I like how quickly these come together. I am working on more complex blocks while I stitch up these quick, little quilt tops. 

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I've been doing simple piecing using various leftovers. The cute scotty dog print is one I picked up at the last Annapolis Quilts for Kids. 
All of these were in my bin of leftovers. Sometimes it just works out. 

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On Saturday I dropped off eight quilt tops to Annapolis Quilts for Kids. I've been piecing these when I can. The computer for my long arm went on a vacation (the hard drive failed) so I haven't been able to use the robotics. This changes the time commitment for charity quilting so I haven't managed to get any quilted in about a month.

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A couple more little quilts pieced with leftovers. This one was fun. Pieced with leftover 9-patches, 4.5" squares pieced into larger 9-patches, and some leftover 6.5" blocks from other projects. Framed up nicely into a great little quilt top.
While I was piecing that one, I was also piecing this simple quilt using some 6.5" squares. I love that polka dot border. 

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I sewed the columns and rows together for my Quiltober quilt. 
I decided to frame the center with a narrow 2" border and then a 6" border. If I had picked the outer border earlier in the process, I might have added more blues to the blocks and fewer greens and oranges. Not that it matters. I still have plenty of 2.5" charm squares. I might make another. 

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I've been piecing charity quilts using some of the leftovers from other projects. I grabbed squares that matched the snake fabric to put together this simple quilt. 
I had a stack of half-square triangle pieces cut so I matched them up and pieced this little quilt. 
The last few half-square triangle pieces became these churn dash blocks. This one is my favorite of the quilt tops I made last week. 

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I've had these 5" charm packs for an embarrassingly long time. I cut some more coordinating squares, added that fabulous red and got to sewing some nine-patches. The red became the center of my nine-patches.
I cut those nine patches into quarters to make these great disappearing nine-patch blocks. 
This is pretty forgiving design and a great way to showcase your fabrics. I quilted it using the design Plus from Longarm League. This quilt traveled across the United States to my littlest cousin. 

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A while back I picked up some fabric from Allison Glass to make stamp blocks. I settled on the green for the stamp background/border fabric. 

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Remember my project box full of Quiltober blocks? Well, I pulled out that project box and started putting the blocks on the design wall.
I'm not sure this is the final layout but here is where I stand. Do you have any scrappy projects you would like to finish this year?

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Do you remember the Quilt Block of the Month kits that Joann Fabrics had (20 years ago)? Well, it seems I had one partially pieced hanging out in my boxes and boxes of fabrics. I decided it was more than time to get it pieced. I still have a border to add. It's nice to finish things. This one was Threads from the Heartland. I must have been unable to find all of the blocks because there are some duplicates.

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What can you do with a piece of fur from Ikea? Well, my plan was to make a fur mantle that would give the viewer the impression of a barbarian character.
I made a foundation for the fur and sewed the fur to the foundation.
And trimmed the fur into a suitable shape. 
Then, I decided I didn't want it to be white and did a dye experiment. And that is where it all went sideways. I didn't wait for the water to get up to temp. I wasn't sure the water would ever get up to ...

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