I love scrap quilts and it’s a good thing because I have trouble throwing bits of fabric out. A couple of years ago(prior to 2007) I read an article in American Quilter Magazine called Mile-A-Minute Quilts. It sounded like a fun technique to use up piles of scraps. My technique doesn’t work quite like the article but that is where the idea was sparked. I took my scrap bin and sorted the bits into groups – red/black, brights, blue/tans and greens and then sewed like crazy. I made lots of blocks and started developing layout schemes in Electric Quilt .
Mardi Gras is the first in the “scrap bin” series. I used the bright blocks and a traditional sashing and cornerstone setting. Then I used it to practice ruler work on my longarm. I stitched in the ditch the blocks and sashing, used squiggle lines in the blocks (I tried other motifs but nothing showed) and used a circle template for the sashing and stipple in the cornerstones. It was great practice. The quilting was done with Superior’s King Tut Thread.
Here are other quilts made in this series:
2011 Zig Zag
On Point 2012
Green Quilts, 2021
