More and more restrictions in place across Australia.
I spent most of the weekend watching the news and quilting. Finally got around to something I had been wanting to do for a long time...and that is, sewing my batting leftovers together. I did chuck a lot lot out about 2 months ago, but again have quite a selection of leftovers. I seem to keep everything!
I could use batting tape which I have used before, however that would be a bit expensive. This is only to be used for the many practice sandwiches that I do. Just to give you an idea of how much batting is leftover from one quilt
This is about 28in square and is from the overage of the Traffic Jam quilt that I just finished. I use a three step zigzag stitch for this, but you could also just use a simple zigzag stitch. I have used this to piece together batting pieces for a quilt before and it presents absolutely no problems when quilting.
So, I spent the entire evening just rattling down batting pieces and have a whole stack of them ready to go.
I will do this from now on with all the leftovers rather than using fresh batting for the practice sandwiches. Way too much wastage going on.
Today then I continued on the Scrappy Houses quilt (see that empty space..this is where the new machine is supposed to go...still no word!)
Decided to take the scrappiness to the next level by also making the sashings all out of different fabric. A bit more work intensive but I am hoping to really reduce the stash of accumulated fabric cut offs as much as I can.
This is how far I got
I am not matching or coordinating colours because that would probably drive me insane and, of course, had a red cornerstone together with a red sashing. Very annoying but I will just leave that and sew them together as they come through the machine. Otherwise this project will become too time consuming. This is just meant as a throw for our sofas, so it will do. Planning on a very pretty dark blue border and then it will be done.
Linking up to
Oh Scrap! over at Quilting is more fun than Housework to show off my progress and have a look around at what other quilters are up to.
Karin
You know, joining up the batting scraps as soon as I finish each quilt would be a great idea. For awhile I was saving all of my batting scraps in one box, but all different batting types were mixed up in there and I didn't know what was what. Some of them get used for dusting off the longarm machine, but you are right -- having Frankenstein batting sewn together in practice sample sizes all ready to go would remove one obstacle from actually doing the practice quilting that needs to happen in order to get better! I think your little houses are adorable and I don't mind one bit that you have a red corner square next to a red sashing strip.
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