I've just finished four quilts in a fairly short time, and now I have to figure out what to do next. Since I have some big bins of scraps I decided to make scrap slabs and then cut the into triangles. I've got a few different layout ideas rolling around in my head, this is a good start.
Sometimes I'll make a slab and I know I can get several triangles out of it but while I am making up my mind I lose track of how I planned to cut them out. So I have these two blue triangles I use as "placeholders". I can move them around while I figure out how I want them to look when I cut the triangles.
When I cut scrap slab triangles like this, I work on one color at a time. Today it was light, lime-y green. I really want to use up the fabrics in my bins. I group the triangles in tens, and then stack them on my worktable. This is six stacks, so sixty blocks. The average Scrap Slab Triangle quilt has 120 triangles, so this is half a quilt.
I am always amazed at how much fabric is in the little bins.
2 comments:
And those slabs/triangles are addictive! I have three quilts tops made with scrap slab triangles waiting for their free motion turn with Max.
I bought your tutorial for the scrappy slab triangles and have had great fun making them. (One quilt finished and more to come.)
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