I had so much fun making my last postage stamp quilt that I had to make another. To make this quilt it takes many 2-inch by 7-inch strips of fabric. My scrap basket is so large that I was on a mission to reduce the overflowing basket of scraps. So I decided that I would cut no more than two 2" x 7" strips from any given fabric. That would make for an interesting challenge and yet it wasn't as hard to come up with enough variety as I thought it would be. So over the last week I cut some strips, sewed them into blocks, recut the blocks and on and on...
It wasn't long before I had the whole quilt top done. The challenge then becomes finding a backing that will complement all those scraps. I chose a flower pattern that really had nothing to do with any of the fabrics on the top. I bound the quilt in a Kona solid that complemented the backing fabric.
Now my scrap basket is much more manageable - at least for now.
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