summer class ...at last a start

I have been thinking a long time on what I wanted to do for the summer class project-part of Tonya's style of encouraging that out of the box kind of quilting- my favorite to play around with.

I tend to save the leftover scraps from a quilting project-at least for a while before they end up being dumped into some scrap container of larger size. The jigsaw puzzle scraps have been kept separate- waiting. I made 2 bedsize (king/queen) quilts with these fabrics- identical, one for us and one for my sister. I am still waiting over a year now for mine to come home from the longarm quilter. It has been my choice to wait so long- no blame being assigned! All I will say is her quilting has always been the standard I hold all other LA's against. Anyway..I knew these were the perfect inspiration jumping off fabrics to play with - and despite a whole lot of other stuff going on..I dumped them out and I have made a start about a week ago now. I took a photo of the piles loosely sorted-the clear shoebox holds the larger "yardage" pieces of much of the fabrics..though some were only fqs to start and were almost totally used up in the quilts. I am using some quite small pieces but stitched together from the leftover squares first. I went ahead and cut them apart and pressed them and got them up on the design wall. Nice to have some new color up there! I have promised myself I am not making a large quilt...and this is not by any means how they will be sewn together in the final round. I am just throwing stuff up as I have a pile stitched. I have a ufo swap block that may find a spot in this project. And, letters, yes there will be letters and /or words. I enjoy designing as I go along, so who knows how this will go...for now I am just playing around.