Cluck Cluck Sew

Truth be told I don’t love using scraps since it takes so much time, but I definitely LOVE the look of a scrap quilt. 

Since I had plenty of time, and plenty of scraps, I had no excuses not to make one!

This design was based off of the Tick Tock quilt in my book I wrote back in 2012.  My book is now out of print (the ebook can be found here), so I played with the design to make this scrappy, more compact version of that pattern.   

This is the grown up Tick Tock quilt!

I don’t love sewing looooong strips of blocks together without seams to match, so instead this is a block based quilt that goes together easily with (my favorite) nested seams.  

I moved my sewing machine onto the dining room table and free motion quilted this with large loops in between my kids wanting to be fed 87 times a day. 

A pink binding is icing on the cake/quilt!

There are scraps from at least 4 years of quilt-making in this quilt, and I love trying to remember where I’ve used all of these fabrics before.  Even though scraps are a big fat pain to sort/press/trim, it’s very fulfilling to make a quilt completely from my scrap bin.

If scraps aren’t your thing, this quilt can also be made with 2 1/2″ pre-cut strips, or 10″ squares, or yardage.   You can make the Throw size with one jelly roll, or one layer cake (yay!).  

The PDF version of Tick Tock can be found here.     The Paper version of Tick Tock can be found here.  

Also I blinked and it was July…but that also means that Backyard Blooms is shipping to stores very soon!   I cannot wait!

I really love making new quilt tops, but actually finishing the quilts?  Not nearly as fun.  I have a closet of unfinished tops to prove it!

Since we’ve been home and I have nothing new to work on, I’ve been slowly finishing up some old tops and teaching my kids how to help.  

I made this scrappy Ziggy Baby top a couple of years ago, and it was a great project to teach my boys how to finish a quilt.   I used this pattern. 

My boys are a great age where they can run the sewing machine easily by themselves and even keep a straight-ish line.  I turned down the machine speed, taught them how to line up the edge of the walking foot along the seams, and they quilted along each one. 

 Anywhere they had to “eyeball” the line straight was tricky for them and I did the quilting.   Besides that, and a bit of unpicking and re-stitching the wonky parts when no one was looking, they actually did a pretty great job!

Aaaaaand it only took us about 2 weeks to finish quilting it.  ;)  LOL…it was veeeery slow going. 

I bound it, and I’ll help them donate it when we can.

The pattern is called Ziggy Baby…I wrote this one 9 years ago!  I added a page to the PDF with the cut sizes and a coloring sheet to make it scrappy like this version.  

What are you guys working on?   Any fun quilting projects?  I’ve been SO unproductive during this time, but I’m also enjoying the down time.  

I’m definitely feeling ready to start a new project though, maybe I’ll make a few more quilt tops to add to my never ending closet of unfinished quilts!