Thursday, April 21, 2016

THE LAST OF THE MEDALLIONS

The last couple of days I have been sewing up 19 more little medallions that I had cut recently while organizing my scraps.
That brings the total up to 62 4" blocks.
Which means I have used more than 180 different fabrics from my stash bins.  That is not even making a dent --- I'm guesstimating that I must have over 2000 different fabrics accumulated over the last 40 years in those bins.  In my defense, some of those scraps are no bigger than 3-4 inches square each.
How did that hoarding habit happen????  Over the years, my purchasing mode of operation has been fat quarters. I always preferred 4 different fabrics rather than a yard of one fabric.   When I would travel to quilt festivals, etc., I set a budget and would buy as many fat quarters as I could ---- enough years and quilts equals a lot of scraps.

This has been a fun project for me as it really feeds into my love of fabric design, color, scraps, and fussy cutting.
I have an idea for setting these medallions together --- hopefully soon for my next blog post.

I'm joining the following:

Confessions of a Fabric Addict for Can I Get a Whoop Whoop Friday
Crazy Mom Quilts for Finish it up Friday
Quilting Readers Garden for WIPS Be Gone Friday
A Quilted Passion for Whoomp There It Is! Saturday
Love Laugh Quilt for Monday Making
Cooking Up Quilts for Main Crush Monday
Patchwork Times for Design Wall Monday
Quilt Story for Fabric Tuesday
Sew Fresh Quilts for Let's Bee Social Wednesday

2 comments:

PaulaB quilts said...

Those medallions are wonderful. I've never seen any before. How big are the pieced centers? Is there a pattern or instructions available? They look good with all kinds of fabric, which is a great way to use those fat quarters.

Bonnie said...

Wow! That's a lot of fabric but those little blocks are wonderful. Enjoyed all the different looks.