Scrap quilt progress

The plan was to get this quilt done today, but since I put the whole middle row upside down and didn't notice it until it was completely boxed in - and then had to rip, rip, rip and re-sew - this top is still missing the borders. The pattern is from Judy's Patchwork Times website where she challenged us to use up our scraps. Mine truly is made up of scrap fabric and definitely looks scrappy and unplanned. I'm not in love with it but when the borders are added and it is quilted I may change my mind. Here are the borders I picked out. The grey-green is the first border that matches the setting triangles, then the narrow gold border and finally the outer border of purple with gold dots. None of the fabrics match or even go together, BUT, they were what I had in my stash that fit best. I'm finally getting low on pieces of fabric that are more than two yards. Most of my stash now consits of fat quarters, some one yard cuts and a very few two yard cuts. Hidden away are some five yard cuts of sale fabric that I'm saving for backings.
Don't know if I will do the borders next, or go back to working on the Quilt Along also from Judy's website. That lady is keeping me busy! ! !

Scraps are fun

Today I worked on making the blocks per instructions from Judy at Patchwork Times. I thoroughly enjoyed working with some of my diverse fabrics and scraps. The light fabric on the right with the weathervanes is vintage fabric I found in an Antique Shop and I paired it with a sewing themed fabric. The violin/trumpet/harp/music fabric was given to me by a friend and I paired it with a lush fuschia. The pinwheel fabric seemed to go well with the wild graphic fabric of which I must have purchased 10 yards since I never seem to run out of it. I like the apple slices fabric with the Wear Warm Clothes fabric.
The colorful guitar fabric I obtained in a fabric bag exchange and it works well with a bright yellow. The little scarecrow men are happy sharing the spotlight with stars on a rust background. I don't know yet how Judy is going to lead us in putting this quilt together, but so far I am having fun and thinking of more combinations I could do on a future quilt.

For leaders and enders today, I snuck in little 1-1/2 inch orange pieces to make Halloween pumpkins. More on this in a subsequent post...................

It was a good sewing day today.

Cutting done

All the cutting is done and organized for the new scrap quilt instructions on Judy's website. I was pleased to use up quite a number of small scraps and only returned about five fabric pieces to my stash.