Grey Cat Quilts

About a month ago, I wrote about trying to get my scraps under control and to start using them. Since then, I’ve made some progress – four string blocks, though I hadn’t really touched the Frankenstein’d fabric:

After getting caught up on Granny Blocks, I decided that I wanted to keep sewing this evening, though I really didn’t want to follow any instructions. So I returned to the Frankenstein’d fabric.

Well, sort of. Really, my brain went to the remaining squares of grey that I’d cut for Technicolor Fields, for the setting. I cut too many, and had what I thought were a lot left. I figured they’d be great alternate blocks for the Frankenstein’d blocks.

I only had 14 squares of the grey remaining – barely enough to make a baby quilt. I really didn’t want to buy more yardage in the Kona Charcoal right now. I still have quite a few other solids in my stash, also remaining from the setting of Technicolor Fields. I quickly pulled 1/2 a yard of Kona Peacock, and half a yard of Kona Tangerine, and those were cut into 6″ squares as well.

Once those were cut, I realized I probably needed a plan for laying out those blocks, so I fired up EQ7. The crazy pieced blocks in this illustration are just a placeholder:

You’ll notice that there are 15 grey blocks in this plan. I found some scraps of the grey leftover, and poverty-pieced one more grey block together. I plan to bury that one in the middle of the quilt. With this plan, I should end up with a 50″ X 50″ top that will be nice for throwing on the couch.

JohnPaul put a couple of episodes of Once Upon a Time on while he did some laundry for his impending trip to Las Vegas. I sat at my table and started sewing, after I cut that first piece of Frankstein’d fabric into quarters.

That’s rows one and two done. I’ll need to piece another 31 Frankenstein blocks to get this to where I want it. That’s a lot of itty-bitty scraps… I guess this means that I’d better hurry up and finish cutting my scraps down.

Yay?

By the way, JohnPaul called me crazy for getting this much done in a couple of hours.