Dump Quilt

This is how it began.  A bag full of the left overs from my 4 most recent quilts.

 

 

This was a great adventure started by Beth at http://lovelaughquilt.blogspot.com/.  She threw out that she would have a Link in for a Dump and Sew.   I had never looked at my scraps from this perspective before.  Just dump out a bag of scraps and start sewing.  No rhyme, no reason and no unnecessary cutting.

 

 

 

 OK that was a stressful way to begin. But I got over it.

 

This is what I came up with.  It is currently measuring up to about 40 by 50.  Here it is spread out on my king size bed.

 

The rain stopped and I was able to get a much more clear picture of my masterpiece. 

 

I worked this up over about a week of free moments.  No thinking really speeds up the process.  I didn't give color any attention at all.  My cutting was limited to squaring up.  Looking at this picture I can see where some of my shapes were a bit lopsided  which is why I needed to square up finished sections. 

 

The right edge that is blowing in the wind was one piece left over from the back of my stars quilt. I didn't need to sew it together  just added it on.  There is a chunk in the middle that came from the pieced back of my black and white 1600 quilt.

 

All in all I would recommend this process as a fun use of sewing time.  I still have some scraps left from this dump so I will be working on piecing some sort of back to match this top.   Will post about that adventure another day.

 

Thanks Beth I had fun.