One Monthly goal is finished

I decided to get right on it and finish my OMG way early this month.   A year or so ago I saw this tutorial on Tall Prairie Grass blog and thought it was pretty fun looking. And since we all know I seem to generate a lot of scraps/strings it was perfect to try out.  So I started by figuring out how wide I wanted my strips to be, I picked an odd number of 7 inches-don't ask me why, I have no idea!!  Maybe it just happened to be the width of the first scrap I picked up, who knows!  But I can tell you I thought this was so fun to work on and pick all the bright colors during a Minnesota winter.  At first I was planning on a white sashing until I spied this aqua jelly roll sitting in my sewing room with no purpose. Bingo the perfect addition to the brights.

You do need to be a bit careful as there are lots of bias edges as you put the chevrons together.

The inspiration for the setting is from the book Smash Your Precut Stash.  And would ya just look at that, I have no more snow on my deck, I can take pictures outside again!!!  

I didn't have quite enough backing fabric so I decided to take time to piece a couple more chevron rows, I love it!  With all the color and business going on I opted for a simple meander on this one. The binding is all from leftover bindings from several quilts. I felt like I busted a lot of strings in this one.

 It sure was handy to have my little iron and ironing table right beside my sewing machine and scraps basket.

And because it looks cute all rolled up. Reminds me of  Easter Eggs :-) 

I'm linking with:

Scraptastic Tuesday

Oh Scrap 

OMG

Scrappy Batik runner

I love working with Batik more and more :-)  I put together a couple of these scrappy runners. The pattern was in a magazine a few years back, sorry I don't remember which one. It is a great way to use up some scraps. I hope to finish quilting this one today so I will keep my post short as I have a long list of 'to do's' today.  It is receiving custom in each batik strip and then a stipple in the white blocks which will get appliqued leaves when I am all done with the quilting. It makes it easier to quilt that way without the leaves to maneuver around.

Linking up at Freemotion by the River and She Can Quilt(Scraptastic Tuesday). See the links on my left sidebar. Hoping over now to get in on some eye candy!