This is my first "crumb" block.
I pulled from the pile of scraps comparable to "bits of string too short to save."
"It's good yet! I can't throw that fabric away!"
I started with a foundation square that was about 4 inches. I didn't want anything too big for this first experimental attempt. In future, I might make it 4-1/2 or 5 inches to allow some room for trimming and squaring it up afterwards.
Then I just started laying bits of scraps on the foundation, and doing the sew and flip method until the whole block was covered. No real rhyme or reason ... Kind of like a crazy quilt block.
Here it is before trimming. Unruly and unkempt.
But I can still tell you what projects I used those strips of green in, and that orange wave ...
This could wind up being a kind of memory quilt, after all.
Here it is after trimming.
And no-- I will NOT be keeping those even smaller crumbs, trimmed off the edges.
I loved that orange wave scrap, but I never noticed the blue wave in
it. When it was a bigger chunk, I always saw the green, black and
orange in it: Never the blue!
I'm thinking this might be a nice warm-up or finishing exercise -- or even something "mindless" that I can do in the evenings after work where I can enjoy colors and shapes and not think too much about numbers or words.
