Sunday, June 4, 2006

Bricks and Stepping Stones

Today was a rainy day - a great day to stay inside and quilt.

I worked on a quilt inspired by Bonnie's Bricks and Stepping Stones pattern. I am making my quilt larger than Bonnie's--mine should finish about 86" x 104". I am half finished piecing the top - 5 rows complete - 5 more rows to go!

I am determined to make this quilt from scraps. Placement of fabrics is totally random, no planning or engineering in this one to make it a "controlled" scrap.

13 comments:

  1. I love all your scrappy quilts! When you buy fabric do you right away cut strips or do you save the fabric up for a major strip cutting day? Do you cut out 1 quilt at a time or do you end up cutting several different things at once? Just wondering about your system because you sure do use a huge variety of fabrics in your tops! Wonderful! If you blog about it - great, if you want to send me an e-mail I'm at evlouise@yahoo.com - got to change my user settings one of these days so that shows up!

    Cheers!

    Evelyn

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  2. Looks great so far. I made a quilt very similar to this one and it was a lot of fun. Used up a lot of scraps also!

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  3. What vibrabt colours - my favourite kind of quilt - totally random - and beautiful.

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  4. That looks gorgeous and I really like the black/white. Randomly placing fabrics is still scary for me - LOL - perhaps this pattern would be a good place to start working on that.

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  5. Norma, this is looking great! way to go to attack those scraps!

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  6. Another lovely scrap quilt. This is on my "do real soon" list. I have a large quantity of bricks cut from the last round of scrap cutting I did. Just have to pull some black/white strips to make the 4-patches with.

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  7. I really like how you used the black and white four patch blocks in there. Really makes it look snazzy!! The shop hop looked fun. Ours is next weekend and I CAN'T WAIT!!

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  8. I love that quilt pattern! I just made one in pastels, but smaller than the pattern. Now that I see yours, I may have to do a black and white with color one, too!

    debby

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  9. I've always liked this pattern! Your random scrappiness is wonderful!!!
    Jeanne

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  10. It's looking great. I just love scrappy quilts.

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  11. go, Norma, go. Sew, Norma, sew! This is looking wonderful. Is it hard for you to just piece it randomly and you find yourself getting "matchy" with it?

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  12. Very good going Norma ! I am looking forward to see the full quilt.

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  13. Norma,
    that is very cool...what a great use of one's scraps!
    Hugs
    Laurie

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