Have I told you lately that I hate you?

Not you, dear reader. Never you.

But you! YOU! YOU crappy scrappy fabric. It took me a few days to transform a bag full of IKEA fabricscraps into 400 perfect 6" squares. I think it was around square number 120 that the hatin' begun.
Thank the goddess for my good old rotarycutter otherwise I would have stopped then.




The result was rewarding though: 400 squares of heavy quality fabric. Too heavy for a supple bedquilt but perfect for the kind of quilt that I need: small, easy to wash and extremely cheap. Quilts that can withstand two leaky children, a hairy dog and two drooling but semi-hairless cats.
I think these will. They still need backing, binding and quilting but I'm really looking forward to doing that.
I was a bit worried that the big bold designs would disappear after the cutting and I although I tend to consider myself pretty knowledgeable when it comes to designing and colours I couldn't imagine how all those different squares could fit together.
So for the yellow/red/orange one I decided to just use random simple squares in order to make the most of the print on the fabric.
For the blue one I decided to see if I could work with a bit more structure. I made nine identical blocks of nine squares each. Then I cut the blocks in four and sewed the four blocks together in a shifted order. It gave the quilt a nice "order in the chaos" pattern. I like it.

I started hoarding ikeascraps so I could see if quilting really is as cool as I though it would be. So far, it isn't. It is waaaaay cooler!



I think that from now on I will be making this small quilts everytime I need a present. They are fast and easy to make (except for the cutting, but that is what the precut charmpacks are made for, baby!) and the small size is perfect as a playblanket, footwarmer, lapquilt, wallhanger, etc.

By the way, it is blissfully silent here. Officeman (and again: he specificly asked that I call him officeman online) is away for a two days and both children are asleep. I should go to bed but I just can't pull myself away from the washinmachine in which a silk indio didymos is rinsing after a shoking ping aciddyebath.

Oh well, I better go and leave the rinsing for tomorrow. Goodnight!