Scrappy wedding quilt

Charlene brought her "scrappy re-gifted blocks" thrown together keepsake to be quilted today.   Blocks and other yellow and blue scrapes were donated to me from a friend of a friend.
I am such a fan of throwing orphan blocks together and seeing what a few hours and couple of bobbins of thread can produce.

Charlene's quilt is a reminder of how GOD can use the works of our hands to celebrate and bless others.

Your UFO, my UFO it's still a UFO

To make a short story long-- Erin sent me a pack of blocks intended for another friend on her site.  Lucky for me I passed them along to their rightful owner.  What a lovely surprise when these black and white beauties showed up in my mailbox!  Thanks Erin, your UFO's are now MY UFO's and may or may not be UFO's much longer.

I love the B/W and the green just pops!

I am hoping to add a yarn embellishment to enhance the flowers a bit. Several of these blocks still need appliqued to the backgrounds.  At first I wanted to make many different color flower outlines but the cheapo in me settled for one skein of yarn

 Since most of these gifted blocks are black on the left and white on the right I think I may break them up with an alternate block between them.

Took a bit of searching but I did find a pack of B/W & Pink butterflies.  These are started on 8 1/2" backgrounds I will need to figure out a way of getting down to 12 1/2" total preferably with out having to  cut new backgrounds.

I 'found' this Black and Pink and had to bring home a couple of yards just in case I wanted borders or binding.

 I may have the use the print to border the flowers to get them up to size.  Really don't want to take the time to size down the butterflies.  So many decisions, no wonder we have so many UFO's!!

Orphan block, crumb quilt

I was digging through my 'collection' of blocks that didn't make it into a snuggle under for some reason or another.  (I swear these multiply over the years)  Many are extras from swaps or rejects gifted to ME b/c everyone knows I will eventually use them.

I got it in my mind that I just needed to sort the overflowing box and pull out favorites to use as pot holders or placemats.  Now, what do I do with the rest?

TA DA----------a scrappy crumb style top!

 First I sorted by size, I had enough 6.5 inch blocks to  do a center.  I sewed them log cabin style, starting in the middle and moving around clockwise with similar blocks.  I got a 36 x 36 start on a future baby size quilt.

Then I got the idea to die cut the other blocks at 4 inches.  The scraps from that cut will go into my 'crumb'  tub.  I sewed the cuts into strips.  Then I added my new strips to the center in a 'courthouse steps' style.
I added a row to the left & right, then to the top & bottom.  I then repeat till I used up all the strips.  Left overs went to the crumb tote for 'next time'

A small inner border and a 6(ish) inch print should bring this up to a nice size keepsake.
I giggle b/c some of these 9 patches are from a swap in early 2000!

Next I had to raid my stash and look for a border print.  The tan was pre-cut for a binding.  I don't mind sewing bias, especially if I don't have to cut it first.  The outer border was a yard of strip that never seemed to get picked for a project.  I love how they both fit the scrappy top.

Don't hold your breath it may be awhile before I get around to picking a quilting pattern, I still have a rather large pile of future placemats to play with.