Scrap Busting...

Well trying very hard too...

the lid of my blue scrap bin wouldn't stay closed and even after I did manage to get the lid on with in two minutes I would hear a ''pop''.......... so time to do something about those blues... oh and greens... which weren't as bad as the blues I must say...

I keep ice-cream containers on my cutting table and fill these then once full tip them into my colour bins... yes I do have an ice-cream container for each colour and I do have a scrap bin for each colour.... ''anal some would say''.... oh and my kids would say... especially my eldest daughter...

so with a hot coffee at my side

and my two containers of sorted random greens and blues

 

and some grey homespun marked with lines...

 

 off I go just choosing at random but starting with a blue strip then a green...

 

 I start creating these....

 

and turning them into these... (not sewn together yet)

 I just love the colour combo... "who said blue and green should never be seen"???

I have always wanted to try the ''spider web'' pattern and I found this great tutorial for this one here

the only part that I didn't like doing is measuring and drawing the lines

''time consuming'' but well worth it for the accuracy...

so while in Perth last weekend I went to Spotlight and purchased another 5 metres of grey... yeah I know a lot but I live 7 hours from Spotlight and even if I don't use it all for this project it will get used... and I have decided to make a quilt for my bed with these and I have a queen size with a high mattress... last night I spent an hour drawing lines on some more cut out triangles... and I had another little sort through my blue and green bins... this could take me a LITTLE while to make to so don't expect a quilt in a week...

I have also caught up on my block swap...

this one ''Castle in the Air" is for Carmen in Australia...

this one "Abstraction" is for Alicia in USA...