Starting scrap blocks

Are your scrap bins flowing over? Mine are!!

and often when I cut a project, I put the scraps of fabrics to the side on my counter by my Go BIG cutter and when the pile gets too big so it’s in the way, I sort the colors and put them in my bins.

The other day I thought about browsing my scrap quilt books or books about mini blocks, really any of my books and I picked out blocks that were Accuquilt friendly and then wrote notes about the blocks and also designed them in EQ and printed out a few pages and hung them up and eventually I’ll get in a “groove” of just cutting out pieces as I get the scraps before putting them away, we’ll see….

Some of the blocks require specific colors others are all scraps with white or beige backgrounds.

For most of the blocks I’m using the 4″ QUBE set, so some blocks are TEENY TINY! others I use the 6″ QUBE.

Here I made a sample of each block, the shoofly is blue and yellow and uses dies #2 and #5 (from the 4″ QUBE set) so that’s 3″ Fin. Blocks!

For bowties I also used the 4″ QUBE, die #2 and the bowtie companions so those blocks are 2″ Finished! (and background is white)

For grandpa’s buttons (or whatever the block is called) I also used the 4″ QUBE and cut 4 beige and 4 “color” with #5, 4 beige with #2, 2 each of beige and “color” of #3 so this block finishes 4″

The Box block also uses the 4″ QUBE, a white center with die #1, 2 of 2 colors of #2 and #8 to make 4″ Fin. blocks.

(I haven’t cut out enough yet to make the light blue and brown blocks, I think I used the 6″ QUBE for that)

I can never just work on one block, I seem to grab components for 1 block from each pile and work on those WHILE I’m working on a main project, but too often, these side projects end up being my main projects!