A Multitude of Colour!

Look at this growing pile of bright 'busy print' improv pieced blocks. So luscious.

I started these blocks earlier in the week when I sorted all my charm squares and sifted out the bright busy prints as I went. 

I could've just made a boring charm pack friendly quilt but I decided to go for a scrappy look instead with improv pieced brick blocks.

Now I have 36 of them ready to sew into a project!

 

More Charm Pack Play

After colour sorting all my charm squares earlier this week I was eager to start using them.  I whipped up these two mini runners. I use these behind my sink to sit my dish liquid, hand soap & disinfecting spray on, they serve as drip catchers. I only had one and needed some spares. I'll probably make several more eventually. I used a quilt as you go technique with these so they are quick and easy to make. 

I also used all the earthy prints pile to make eight scrappy style improv pieced blocks. Because there were only a small amount of blocks I decided they'd be best used to make a couple of table toppers.

They turned out well and fitted the table between my armchair and hubby's perfectly. 

 

Pastel Play

Earlier this week I opened and colour sorted dozens of charm packs, One of the piles I made was a pastel busy prints pile. 

I could've made any old charm pack quilt pattern to destash them but I was more drawn to the idea of creating a scrappy style improv pieced project. So I whipped up these four test blocks and I loved them, so I kept sewing and made a pile of 36.

Found them!

Last year I colour sorted all the charm packs I could find, but I suspected there were more hiding somewhere. This week I found them! So I colour sorted and sifted out all the busy prints.

• Busy prints will be used in scrappy improv projects to destash them quickly. 
• The colour sorted subtle prints, tonals and solids will be set aside for EPP projects. 

Then I sorted through that busy print stack and created three piles

1. Saturated multi colour 
2. Pastels
3. Earthy natural tones

I already have tons of ideas about how to use those busy prints and will prioritise using them up this year. 

Every year I make an EPP Scrap Satisfaction hexagon quilt and I'm working on an Advent Scrap Along Christmas quilt in December each year, these charm squares will be handy to supplement my scraps and ensure plenty of fabric variety in those projects. The oranges will go into my current project in the coming weeks! 

If you have a stash of charm squares I highly recommend colour sorting them!

Political Pattern Play

After adding a new mini quilt pattern to my FREE political pattern bundle today I decided to do a quilt layout mock up with all the patterns in one quilt, just for fun!

I added this cute patchwork flag block which is made with just 40 scrappy squares:

It was really fun playing around with this and seeing that they can all actually be used in one quilt!

Here are a couple of variations:
 

I love the simple red, white and blue!