051 - Large Appliqué Feather

Inspiration

After cleaning out my scrap bins of the red, orange, yellow, lime, green, blue, purple, red violet, and cream/tan scraps which found their way into flying geese blocks, I couldn't stop ... and wanted to do something with the black and white scraps.

Details

I enlarged the same feather silhouette which I used for the tiny pink feather pincushion to 8 by 15.5 inches and pieced some black and white fabric scraps to a slightly larger size and used the made fabric for my feather.

I used needle-turn appliqué and reverse appliquéd thee background to the made fabric. The teal batik fabric was cut away as I stitched, revealing the back and white crumb-pieced fabric underneath.  I have blogged more of the details of my process on Sophie Junction.




Here it is completed, beside the pincushion I made on day 1, using the same feather silhouette.

050 - More Blue Flying Geese

Inspiration

When I arranged (and re-arranged) the set of Flying Geese blocks made so far, I needed more blue.

Details

Remember the extra small squares I was making to use up the too-small-to-be-useful scraps? I used four of the blue ones to make the larger square that became the second set of blue geese.

Here are all my crumb-pieced flying geese together, sewn into 4 strip sets, ready for whatever's next. I've designated this as my project for a lovely finish in August in hopes that I'll finish my first quilt, started as a series of Daily Feathers.

It's definitely an example of how a small effort each day can result in something much larger and, seemingly, more complex. 

049 - Flying Geese made from (mostly) Orange Scraps

Inspiration

Knock knock.
Who's there.
Orange.
Orange who?
Orange you glad I'm almost out of small scraps to make these?

Details

I actually didn't think I had enough orange scraps to make the 13 1/4 inch square I needed to make these flying geese.  I added some warm browns from the brown bin, then wondered if I'd manage to achieve an overall impression of orange.  I can't believe it worked (and they read even more orange in person.)

048 - Flying Geese from Cream & Tan Scraps

Inspiration

As I work my way through my scrap bins, I am mostly inspired by the idea of having them all cleaned out of the small crumbs and freshly organized.

Details

I am not sure I will make geese from black and white fabrics or multicolor prints for this quilt project ... I may have to come up with another use for them to complete my scrap bin clean-up.

Here's how my design wall looks now, with 36 large flying geese on it.

047- Flying Geese from Green Crumbs

Inspiration

I continue to work my way through the too-small-for-most-projects scraps, color by color.

Details

Without the lime greens that I used yesterday, I was left with a collection of dull and dark fabrics to use in today's quartet of flying geese.  It reminded me of my scrap quilt mantra, "Light, bright, dull, dark." On their own, they are quite uninteresting, but combined with the rest of the blocks made so far, I think that they'll be OK.

046 - Flying Geese from Lime Crumbs

Inspiration

I'm still working my way through my scrap bins.  The green bin was over-flowing and so I firt pulled out the lime green scraps ... with more green geese to follow.

Details

These 6 by 12 inch flying geese blocks were made as before, by first piecing a large square from scraps, then using the 4-at-once, no waste method for making flying geese.

045 - Flying Geese from Red Violet Crumbs

Inspiration

There were enough red-violet fabric crumbs in the purple scrap bin, I made a second set of geese from the red-violet ones.

Details

Here's how six sets of four large 6-by-12-inch flying geese and the smaller blocks I've made with the left-overs look on my design wall today.

I'm adding this post to the Linky list for Design Wall Monday.

44 - Purple Flying (Geese made from) Crumbs

Inspiration

More of the same ... 

Details

A wide range of colors end up in my purple bin–enough for me to pull out the red-violet ones and put them aside to turn them into a set of their own ... coming soon.

043 - Yellow Crumb-y Flying Geese

Inspiration

I continue cleaning out scrap bins, color by color.  I'm afraid my daily project will continue to be predictable for another week or so.

Details 

These 6 by 12-inch flying geese units are made as described before.

I have been making one large square for the flying geese and using up the rest of the mostly too-small scraps in smaller 6 1/2-inch squares.  They may become a border, part of the back or show up in a future project.

Here's how the 4 sets of large flying geese made from scraps look together.

I think it's starting to get interesting.

042 - Flying (Geese made from) Blue Crumbs

Inspiration

More from my scrap bin clean-up

Details

See the Pink geese for details on how these were made.

041 - Large Crumby Red Flying Geese

Inspiration

More geese made from fabric made from the crumbs in my red scraps bin.

Details

Each flying geese unit measures 6 by 12 inches (finished size). Blocks are made using the 4-at-a-time, no waste method.

This is the second post today to make up for Monday, when after a sleepless night, I wasn't able to complete a daily feather.

040 - Large Pink Crumby Flying Geese

Inspiration

I've begun cleaning out the small pieces of fabric (AKA "crumbs") from my scrap bins, with the idea of making large squares of made fabric.

I plan to make a series of large flying geese units as part of this project.  These pink geese are the first.

Details

Each of the flying geese units will measure 6 by 12 inches when sewn into a quilt.

I started by trimming the made fabric to 13 1/4-inches square.  I added 4 black 6 7/8-inch squares and used the no-waste method for making flying geese units.