Scrap vortex quilt

Today I'd like to kick off the scrap vortex quilt along! It's going to be very informal and hopefully a lot of fun. If you are looking to make a dent in some of your scrap bins, this quilt along is for YOU! The quilt along will be based on my scrap vortex quilt. You can read all about and see lots (!) more photos here. If you would like to join in the quilt along, collect your scraps--the more the better--and get ready to sew! My favorite thing about this method of scrap sewing is that you…

Lately, I feel like I have zero focus or direction in my sewing. I have lots of quilts in the works but I just can't seem to make a lot of progress on any specific project. But there is one quilt top that has been finally moved to the "ready to be quilted" pile. And that is my colorwash scrap vortex quilt. Woo Hoo! What was the secret on this one? It was my leader/ender project as I was working on all those other things. So it just quietly continued to grow and evolve as I wasn't paying…

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Felie H. on Instagram: "It's the biggest scrappy project, but oddly enough not 100% pieced with all scraps (the backing is one of my all time favs I've had stashed for a long time) It took over a year from start to finish, and I loved every moment of the process, it really is a vortex just randomly piecing scraps together. I pieced random scraps together when I had some spare time or wanted something therapeutic to work on, the result was a twin size very scrappy quilt that my oldest claimed

164 Likes, 6 Comments - Felie (@london_and_granger) on Instagram: “My scrap vortex quilt is growing, and becoming an intense game of Tetris. I still have so many to…”

Welcome to the final week of the scrap vortex QAL! I'm thankful that so many of you have joined in and quilted along with me. It's been delightful to look through the #scrapvortexqal hashtag on Instagram. So many scraps are being put to good use! Hurray! Before we get on with today's post, I wanted to share a few quilt tops made by others! This one was made by Amanda of Material Girl Quilts. It measures about 46" x 63". This one was made by Linda of Flourishing Palms. It measures a whopping…

Welcome to finish it up Friday! My scrapalicious quilt is finally done! This finish is especially sweet because it has been a work in progress at least since November of 2014. That's a bit of time... I took it to a nearby park yesterday for a photo shoot. It's usually a quiet park, but while I was photographing it, a group of about 10 people who were on a nature walk passed by. Of course they did! It makes me a little bit uncomfortable to be caught in public photographing quilts, but I had…

I can't believe how fast August went and now we're in the first days of September already which for some means Summer is almost over. It seems like it took forever for Summer to start and once it did, we definitely had a range of weather from heat, cool, drought and heavy rains. Last week heavy storms, took down our Willow Tree which has graced our backyard for almost twenty-five years and it has been used it as a backdrop for several of my quilt photos. And speaking about another range is…

Amanda Jean over at crazy mom quilts has been hosting an informal QAL for her scrap vortex quilt. I decided to join in and I have been having a ball sewing up my tiny scraps into larger and larger irregular shaped blocks. It was time to put them up on my design wall so I could see how it looked. I was planning on sewing up a kid-sized quilt but as you can see I got a bit out of control with my sewing. Even after filling the wall space, I still have a large stack of blocks. I thought this…

Here's another Scrap Snap Quilt I made as a custom request. This quilt goes through a lot of scraps! I like to use at least 14 different prints in each color so I ended up having to cut some green, orange, and pink. With all the scrappy quilts I have been making, my choices are getting slim. I know this is a terrible picture, but it's been raining like crazy and I just wanted a quick photo of the back to remember that I added this beautiful rainbow strip. (I would have been smart to take it…