Red scrap bucket

I finally, finally finished the red scrap bucket I started about 26 years ago.  OK, maybe not that long, but it was before Christmas.

I made a panel using the Scrappy Trip Around The World method.  I presume I quilted it, but looking at the photo below, it doesn't look like I did.  Ooops, well that was an oversight then!  When I came back to it after the 26 years, it was fused to a piece of fusible fleece and sewn into the basket shape, but i'd forgotten to put the heavy duty interfacing in, and it's that that makes them stand up, so I fused a piece to the lining instead.  I think that's why this is slightly squarer than the others I've made.

I did iron down the sides to make it square, but the others definitely flop more.  Maybe it's because they're 26 years old.

I lined it with a piece of pink/red/yellow fabric as I didn't have any large pieces of red that I was willing to sacrifice for a scrap bucket.  The panels are 33" long to start with so fat quarters are no good unless I seam them.

And here it is with all my neatly ironed red scraps!

Now I have 6 baskets.  I've only got brown, grey, white and black to go.  I don't think I'll do individual baskets for all of those colours, but I'm not sure yet where the split will be.  I'll let you know in 26 years.

scrap bucket in yellow

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June's colour for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge was yellow.  I showed you the blocks at the time, but now I've sewn them up into a scrap bucket.

I quilted it in wavy lines following the seams.  I think I did it with my walking foot, but if I'm honest, I quilted it a few weeks ago and I just can't remember!

I didn't have any yellow old clothes or bedding for the lining, so went with this striped sheet as it does have some yellow in it.

July's colour is red, I really must get started on that, but I've got next week off work, nowhere to be, no obligations, so I hope to get it done.


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So, we're 13 days into the month, I've signed up for more challenges than you could shake a stick at (not true, you could shake a stick at hundreds of challenges) and... I've completed my second of the month!  This months Rainbow Scrap Challenge is green and I have made my green scrap bucket.

First though, you have to look at my purple scrap bucket.  It's compulsory.  I showed you the improv wonky log cabin blocks I made last month (intentionally wonky!), I sewed them together, added some height and width, quilted it and sewed it into another bucket.

All of my buckets are the same size, they start as 13" x 33" panels, are sewn with a 1/2" seam and the bottom corners are boxed at 3".  I'll let you do the maths!

They are all quilted with a piece of fusible fleece, then I add some firm interfacing and make up the bucket.  I then make another lining, this one is an old pillow case (I'm not wasting expensive quilting cottons on a scrap bucket - other than for the outside of course!).

They all also have a hanging tag so I can hang them at a later date when I've had the chance to sort my craft room out and have something to hang them from.

Here he is, filled with all my ironed scraps.  Yep, I iron them.  Only as I make each scrap bucket, the reds and yellows are all crumpled and stuffed in bags.  I find it pretty easy to iron new scraps I make before adding them to the bags and it makes it a lot easier to find and use them.

So here's Mr Green.  For the outside, I tried doing a jelly roll race.  Not with a jelly roll, just with longish scraps I had.  I cut them to 2.5" wide and sewed them end to end to make a very long strip.

It was supposed to be a leader and ender project, but I got carried away!  I then sewed along the lengths, cut, sewed, cut...  It was quick and fun to do, but I messed up a bit as you can see there is rather a large patch of that animal print above, and half of it is upside down!

I tried to line this with an old skirt lining.  Well no, I didn't TRY to line it, I did line it, but I'm not sure if it's green.  In some lights it looks dark khaki, in others it looks brown.  We'll call it khaki!

4 scrap buckets down, only yellow, red, black, grey, brown and white to go... then I have to start the solids.

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Remember I made some pink blocks for February's Rainbow Scrap Challenge?  Well now I've made them into my second scrap bucket.

I'd made five 6" squares, so I sewed them together and added a patchwork border top and bottom.  I backed this panel with some fusible fleece and practiced my FMQ.

I had a go at some swirls and also writing words like Pink, Peach and Coral.  They're not great, but it was good practice.  I'm still moving my hands too fast and not putting my foot down enough.

The finished bucket is the same dimensions as the blue one I made and has a hanging loop for future hanging possibilities.

I lined it with part of a pink sheet I had.  It must have been my stepdaughter's as I've certainly never owned a pink sheet!

I've started ironing some of my pink scraps to put in the basket, still got most of the blue ones to iron too!

I'm linking this up to Le Challenge as I have created order from my pink scraps.  Well, some of them.  

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