Strip Scrap Quilt

Hello!   Here we are at the beginning of another strip scrap quilt.  I've made four full sized quilts of this style, as well as two snuggle-sized ones and a couple small hangings.  I enjoy them a great deal, because they're very spontaneous.  I'm certainly making decisions while I'm sewing the scraps together, but mostly I don't notice it, and I find it lots of fun to simply work without thinking. 

First I locate my scraps.  In this case, I brought all my current scraps to California, where I've just moved, and you can see them in the picture above, with my foot to give you some perspective. I then sew anything I can construe as a strip end-to-end with other strips of the same width.  Below, on the left, you can see me organizing and pinning strips so I can sew them. Many of my strips change thickness in the course of their stripdom, so when I'm finished with this step, I have long (and I mean 30 yards or more!) series of strips sewn end-to-end, which vary in width over that 30 yards.  Then I iron the series, to make the seams flat and everything tidy. On the right is a picture of me holding over a hundred yards of sewn-together (oh so orderly!) strips.  This might be barely enough to make a quilt, but I'll keep going until I've pieced all the scraps I brought with me to California.

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