There is nothing I love more than celebrating International Quilting day,
with Marian and her band of Qwazy Quilters!
But you add in the theme this year...
Choose your own "Qwazy", and I'm in on that challenge.
LOL!!
I do love a good scrap buster.
That's the "Qwazy" in me.
Sometimes those scraps should have just gone in the trash
But...
Where there's a will, there's a way!
This years "Qwazy" started with a bag of my "Island Batik" scraps.
I guess I shouldn't really call them scraps, they were more like shards.
But, they are just so pretty, I couldn't throw them away!
So, I encased them, between 2 layers of a sticky water soluble stabilizer.
And started to stitch.
That's when it all went downhill.
My little "pillow of scrap" was too thick for my sewing machine to sew through.
Needles broke, words started to fly.
So I took it over to my long arm...
It didn't like it anymore than the sewing machine did.
What to do, what to do.
I ended up cutting holes in the top stabilizer,
then pick and cut out many of the scraps.
Oh these brilliant ideas I have some days!
Ugggh.
I did manage to finally get it all stitched,
and was pleasantly surprised, when I put it in water.
As the stabilizer melted away, this wonderful new fabric started to emerge.
What I have now, is this fun 12"x24" piece of "Island Batik"
collage cloth. Not what they ever expect to see, I'm sure, but
it's going to be fun to figure out a project for it!
I think I've tried just about every "Qwazy" thing I can think of...
But there is just something about "scraps", that calls to me every time.
This scrappy log cabin is all in 1" strips that finish at 1/2".
My quilting cave was being remodeled at the time,
and even the contractor commented, that I had lost my mind!
This monster stash buster is an oversized, reversible California King.
Besides busting through tons and tons of scraps...It's so heavy, that if we loose power in the dead of winter, we will never freeze as long as we have the muscle to get the thing out and onto the bed!
HAHAHAHA
There was this fun string quilt from my "Fabulous Freebie" blog hop last year.
yes...
I do love a good "scrap" challenge. Don't even get me started on
Bonnie Hunter quilts.
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This is "Orca Bay".
I don't think Bonnie had real Orcas in mind, when she designed it.
I doubled the size and added the big border.
One last little "Qwazy" photo.
A peek into my Quilt cabinet.
Oh, how I wish I could tell you this is the only place they are stashed.
But it's finally cleaned out enough to show you!
hahaha
A big thanks to the Fat Quarter shop for a couple of great giveaways!
It's not too late to enter in a giveaway from Annies Craft Store.
You have until 11:59pm tonight to enter.
Check out my previous post and read all about it.
:-)
In you've missed what my fellow bloggers have been
doing, that made them all a little Qwazy...
til next time...
Keep on Stitchin'
(and sharing...cause that's what it all about)
;-)
