07.05.2010
Another Scrap Bag, BUT What Is It???
My BFF, Renee, scored another pre-garage sale quilt scrap bag from one of her neighbors. It cost her a whole dollar. She gave most of it to me, except she kept the 30 or so completed Dresden Plate patterned blocks!!
This is what I pulled out of the bag……
It looks as if someone started on the border and then started to work inward. It has all been hand stitched….
But has all these dangling strips ready to be stitched.
I really don’t even know where to start or how to begin to finish this puzzle of a quilt!
I assume this is the middle because there are pre-cut squares in these colors all in the same bag.
There are lots and lots of squares just ready to finish this whole thing.
Does anyone have any ideas on what to do first?? HELP!
wendy on 2010.07.07
Wow, that is some puzzle! Why would someone piece a quilt from the outside in and then the inside out???
My opinion is this: if you look at the lower right corner in your photo, you can see that they started piecing the dangling strips together diagonally, adding more squares in the middles (stripes) to make them long enough to join. If you really want to finish this thing, that’s where you should start: joining strips diagonally, starting in the lower right. But…..what color squares should you add is the question. You would have to draw a quilt map first and color it in to make it come out with an overall pattern when you’re done.
You’re brave, I wouldn’t touch this thing with a 1000 foot pole! You can’t even really keep the borders for a different quilt since they don’t have smooth edges. Good luck!