Maker Monday

 As a crafter I sometimes try to keep my different crafts separate.  As a scrapbooked I make page kits to go with photos.  As a quilter I design quilts then make. Them knowing colors & theme before hand  A friend recently asked me to help he4 sort her scraps

What do you do when all the flat areas are covered with fabric?  My friend is a square & strip quilter.  These aren’t my favorite types to sew.  I like to do appliqué or story quilts. At one point my friend asked why I was taking so long to sort stacks.  I said I could see quilts.  She wanted to know what I meant.  I said a that some large triangles could be sewn together to make a large circle vocal point for a quilt center.

 

Not very round but still unique.  The multi fabric center was part of the scraps.  I brought scraps together which matched the colors in the center.  This quilt will be about the size of a lap quilt when it is finished - all from scraps.

As I thought about the stacks of scraps & my friend was saying it would take he4 a month to cut all those scraps into squares I asked he4 if I could make some quilt kits.  She said to do what I wanted.  Just like I make page kits for scrapbooking I made quilt kits.  I chose a fabric with multi colors then picked complimentary fabrics.

Some quilts ended up with more scraps than others.  My friend kept saying make as many kits as you want I would never have thought of doing that.  She sent all the kits home with me & asked me to design quilts for each quilt kit.  She said she wants to try something different.  A year’s worth of baby quilts, lap quilts or twin quilts for  humanitarian projects.