Quilting Behind The Scenes!
I was thinking of hand quilting – but I think I’m not. Not for now. I’m going to continue to push the hexie quilt further along using that as my evening hand stitching. I’m reaching half-way on that and after years of it being my travel project, I’m really wanting to see it finished.
While I was cutting out that last star block I thought I’d stick in a little visual of how I keep my scraps pared down.
If you look closely you’ll see that I was cutting some half-square triangles from a pair of strips. I got to where there was just a bit of the neutral strip left over. Not much, but some.
At this point I will cut whatever sized square I can get out of it in my most used sizes: 1 1/2”, 2”. 2 1/2”.
In this case that short strip end was only enough to give me a 1 1/2” square. I trimmed that square to save in my squares drawers by size.
The remaining pieces were all deemed too small to save.
I keep this basket on my cutting table. So far in this basket are saved squares from kitting up my Four Patch Fun blocks, and now this newest quilt yet to be named.
There are 3 piles: 1 1/2”. 2”. and 2 1/2”. All trimmed from short ends on strips while cutting out blocks.
I had the rotary cutter in one hand, and the ruler in the other already…so I just trim down scraps as I make them and then it is never a big job later.
