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I am ending the Coming Home series with a lot of projects! If you are interested in the Coming Home fabrics you can find all of the information here.
A few weeks ago I made the Coming Home quilt . Between the quilt fabrics and the sample fat quarters that I made for the palette, I had lots left over. I started with the same pattern as I used for the Color Palette placemats and made this set. I really like the gradient as the feature fabric. All of those different patches came from the one gradient.
I also wrote up instructions for making these placemats and you can get it here.
Next I got out the Go! Cutter. I love this tool for taming scraps. Because I had lots of leftover fabric and because these are sufficiently manly fabrics I decided to try to cut out enough fabrics to make a Verteran's quilt.
There were lots of pieced strips so I cut tumbers from those and from the fat quarters. I was still short some tumblers so I peiced enough bits to cut 20 more tumblers. I have enough here for a 48 x 60 quilt and will use these strips (leftover from the quilt) for binding. I think that the pieced tumblers will make the quilt even more interesting. I will work on this at the next Guild Sewing Saturday.
With the rest of the scraps I cut out lots of other shapes trying to get the biggest shape possible from each scrap. I have a bin where I keep these. When I get enough of a shape I will create an ultimate scrap quilt.
Now you know that I am haunted by little bits of fabric. I just can't let them go! These cards were made from the trimmed raw edges.
I wove the background and stitched it directly to the card and then fused on 2 circles. The top one was first stamped with the gold leaf motif.
I had a little more time in the day so why not try some postcards! Some crazy peicing, a little stamping and some programmed stitces and now my February birthday cards are all taken care of.
I put these in the garbage can before I could change my mind and keep them. Chris has alread taken them to the dump and I miss them. I really must get some therapy for this.
I really enjoyed working with this palette but I'm very excited about the new one that I will introduce February 5th!
You may be the Queen of Scraps! I can't believe you 'let' Chris take that nice little pile to the dump, as I'm sure you could have started another project with them!
You've got a really nice quilt for a Veteran cut out for Saturday Sewing!
Posted by: Becky in VA | January 29, 2012 at 05:50 PM
I love everything that you made! But oooooohhhhh, I think that I would miss those wonderful little scraps too. I could see a few more post cards or two!
Posted by: Jackie | January 29, 2012 at 07:27 PM
Next time just have Chris send them to me :)That's the size I use all the time!
Posted by: Ruth Lane | January 29, 2012 at 10:05 PM
Cool placemats and the cards are awesome, too!
Posted by: Cindy Is Crafty | January 29, 2012 at 10:27 PM
I love those, really fun placemats and cards, great way to use up scraps.
Debbie
Posted by: Debbie St. Germain | January 29, 2012 at 11:00 PM
I am always impressed with the cards you make from your leftovers. (I like the quilts too!) The tumbler quilt, with the random scrappy blocks, will be fun to see.
I can identify with missing the scraps.....
Posted by: Judy | January 30, 2012 at 09:08 AM
I don't know Vicki, you threw away some big pieces of fabric there! Lovely fabrics.
Posted by: Laceflower | January 30, 2012 at 10:59 AM
I love your Coming Home placemats! Love the color palette. They are so cheery. Thanks for the tutorial. I will have to make some! I like your cards, too.
Posted by: Kristin | January 30, 2012 at 03:39 PM
Gee, Vicki-you could bag and sell those scraps for applique pieces! I know I'd buy one.
I have the GO! cutter too, and DH just finished an apple core top. It took a lot more time than we thought it would.
Looking forward to seeing your new palette on Sunday!
Posted by: Eileen Keane | January 31, 2012 at 08:46 AM
I love the placements. you should never throw away scraps - if you can't keep them - give them away - i am sure I would happily pay postage for them!!
Posted by: anna nowicki | January 31, 2012 at 09:14 AM
For what you ended up throwing away, I think you made a lot of great projects from the scraps you must have started with. I think my favs are the "woven" postcards with the stamped leaf.
Posted by: sarah | January 31, 2012 at 06:22 PM
Vicki,
You could probably sell bags of hand-dyed scraps as "seeds". For fols to use in their own work. Bet the would be snapped up as quick as you put them up. You could use a certain size bag or by weight. Just sayin'.
Posted by: Louise | January 31, 2012 at 06:28 PM