This week I have been organizing some scrap bins. They had begun to look like Medusa’s hair, so they need some squaring up. A day of Go! cutting later & I have a nice pretty stack of 2.5” squares. I sorted the rest of that first basket into “will become a triangle” and “squared up strips.”
I knew that I wanted to make a scrappy quilt that used 2.5” squares in the blocks & then put a piano key-type border on it. Strips won’t all be the same width, but that’s the general idea.
Today I was linking up with Sarah for the weekly Whoop Whoop and realized I missed last week’s whoopin’-hope that doesn’t mean I am in for one -
Well, last week, Sarah shared her completed scrappy Jacob’s Ladder quilt. {swoon} Go see it here: http://www.confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/2012/06/can-i-get-whoop-whoop-friends-dont-let.html
Off to EQ7 I went!
I found this Alabama Variation block in the library. Love it, just not sure I want that much un-scrappy in the quilt this time. Granted, the blocks are 16” so this quilt would whip up in a jiffy!
So I went back to the original (stolen) idea of a Jacob’s Ladder. I noticed that Sarah’s used larger squares in the corners instead of 4 patches & I really liked the way that looked. So here is my draft (without border). I can totally get into that!
These blocks are 12”, but will use a lot of squares/scraps.
If you like it, dig into your scraps & join me!
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Thanks for the {swoon}, Shannon!! How sweet of you! I'm pretty enamored with it myself. I'll try to get another scrappy quilt done by the end of August, although I'm not promising anything - that new grandbaby is so-o-o-o-o much fun to play with!! But then again, so is Jolene - so I try to do a little bit with each one every day!
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