15 Minutes of Scrap Play Today!

It was a bright, fun and busy day ... all in a good way ... today.

It is almost midnight here but I was missing my sewing machine

and so I grabbed some multi-colored scraps and sewed!

I made another

Large Thread Cone Block

Tutorial Here

and found I needed to update the 

Cutting Instructions:

Threads:  

3/4" to 1 and  1/2"  assorted multicolored strips

Background:  

Two 2" by 5 and 1/2" strips white

Two 1 and 1/4" squares

Two 1"  by  3 and 1/2" strips white

Two 1" by 2" strips white

Cone:

One  4 and 1/2" by 1" strips gray

One 1 and 1/2" by 1"  strips gray

This block will now be referred to as LGTCB on my blog

and I will be making many of them ...

Just For Fun!

Because I read somewhere that 

is a good thing.

More on this tomorrow.

Linking up today with the happy scrappy people 

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RSC 2017

Good night and Sweet Quilty Dreams!

Multi-Colored Scrappy Month ~ I like it!

Large Thread Cone Block

6 and 1/2" block unfinished

Last weekend I improv pieced a bunch of red thread spool blocks for the

Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2017 @ So Scrappy

This month is "Multi-Color" Month

so I gathered a handful of small multi-colored strips
to figure out how to duplicate the 

Large Cone Block

Cutting:

Threads:  

3/4" to 1 and  1/2"  assorted multicolored strips

Background:  

Two 2" by 5 and 1/2" strips white

Two 1 and 1/4" squares

Two 1"  by  3 and 1/2" strips white

Two 1" by 2" strips white

Cone:

One  4 and 1/2" by 1" strips gray

One 1 and 1/2" by 1"  strips gray

I sewed the strips randomly together, 

pressed in one direction

 and trimmed the center of my cone to

3 and 1/2" by 5 and 1/2" 

My scraps are random and uneven strips.

so the resulting thread looks "wonky"

like my variegated threads.

 This is what I had when I started to sew.

I sewed one the corners of the top of the cone 

and pieced the spool strips.

Cut the side pieces and sewed them to either side of the cone.

Sewing tip:  finger press to find the center of each piece and 

align the centers when sewing on the top and bottom.

Sew on top and bottom of cone.

Trim square to 6 and 1/2"

More multi-colored scrap spools coming soon.

Thinking up today with all the multi-colored fun

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It is snowing here ... again ...

good day to stay in and sew!

Stay safe and warm and quilty ... :)