scrappy sections starts

This style of quilt making is probably as old as quilting has been around I am sure-putting together bits and pieces, leftover blocks or trim offs or odd leftover scraps..Evelyn asked how they went together..so I thought I would put up a photo of my design wall with lots of them up-around the wonky house as I have not taken it down and replaced with the scrappy parts that were there...I make them up pretty large and then sort of match sizes. Last time I worked in three sections, although the final quilt doesn't show that approach as without sashings you are hard pressed to find a "block" so to speak. I don't do too much diagonal slicing-though it would add a lot of visual appeal - I find it wastes a lot of fabric- and as these are going away to charity-I want the most for my time on them. You can see more containers next to the bin stuffed with more scraps-those are just from my personal quilting of last year that did not get used up. The flannel scraps are in another bag elsewhere...and the Texas baby scraps are still on the ironing board. I am rapidly approaching the moment of stoppage and the great clean up in here begins.

Today? probably work on those sections and get to a top stage-I could do some quilting on the Texas baby ...need to pull threads out and find the one I think will work-otherwise it's off to buy thread I like for it. I know if this goes to my son and his wife-they will throw it into the washer/dryer and so machine quilting it would be sturdier than hand quilting. I expect my quilts to get hard use, so actually do not expect to do much handquilting on any large quilts I would make -but, I do want to make small ones and do hand quilting on those...