{"id":1909,"date":"2015-10-12T21:55:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T04:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2017-03-10T22:18:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T06:18:19","slug":"using-up-the-green-strips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2015\/10\/using-up-the-green-strips\/","title":{"rendered":"Using up the Green Strips"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am on a mission to use up all of the green fabric strips that are on my fabric shelf. \u00a0The first quilt top that I made was, “Candy Coated” a pattern from Sunday Morning Quilts (by Cheryl Arkison <\/a>and Amanda Jean Nyberg<\/a>). \u00a0\"download\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This quilt top met with a mishap when I tried to trim the left side. \u00a0It ended up being narrower than I would like after my attempt at squaring it up. \u00a0After agonizing over ideas to make the quilt wider again, I have given up and made the quilt shorter instead. \u00a0Now it is back in proportion to its width and is still plenty long enough for a lap at 63″ x 75″. \u00a0I will finish squaring it up after it is quilted.<\/p>\n

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CANDY COATED – 63 in x 75 in<\/p><\/div>\n

I ended up with many chunks of pieced fabric strips as leftovers after finishing Candy Coated so I came up with a second quilt which alternates the pieced strips from Candy Coated with framed four patches. \u00a0This is a “leftover” quilt. \u00a0That name doesn’t seem too glamorous, so it has since been renamed “Strings and Cobblestones” by my good friend LindaJ<\/a>. \u00a0I like this name better than Leftovers, so Strings and Cobblestones it is.<\/p>\n

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STRINGS AND COBBLESTONES – 57 in x 73 in<\/p><\/div>\n

I still have leftovers from Strings and Cobblestones so I am working on making “slabs” from the bits. \u00a0In years gone by, these types of blocks were called Crumb Blocks or Mile a Minute blocks but now in the Sunday Morning Quilts book, the updated name seems to be “slabs”. \u00a0I have made several quilts using this technique over the years and it is the only way i have ever found to ensure that 100% of every last little bit of fabric is used in some way. \u00a0After putting together slabs, there are no leftovers!<\/p>\n

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Green slabs.<\/p><\/div>\n

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