ScrapHappy July: back to Days Gone By

Welcome once again to ScrapHappy Day!

It’s the day my friend Gun in Sweden and I host ScrapHappy, a day for showing something made from scraps.

Because it’s for a good cause, I’ve gone back to Days Gone By, the scrappy hexie quilt I’m making for Days for Girls. It was fun spending some quality time with Anemone, but as that’s one’s for me, it would be self-indulgent to spend too much scrappy time with it. So, here we are again.

The five hexie flowers at bottom left were only placed before. Now they’re all sewn in. In my defence, although this doesn’t look like much, I have spent the last 12 days feeling horrible with all the fun symptoms of a bad dose of flu… I’ve also spent absolutely hours pulling out the basting and removing the papers from all the flowers except those around the edge, which has made this piece more supple and a lot easier to work with. The papers that are still in good condition will go back into the making process, the ones that are too battered or holey will be recycled.

I’ve also selected the next two rows of hexie flowers to be added, so that should keep me out of trouble for a while… They all need to have their black hexies attached, and then I can start the job of adding them to the whole thing, which will bring it up to almost square.

ScrapHappy is open to anyone using up scraps of anything – no new materials. It can be a quilt block, pincushion, bag or hat, socks or a sculpture. Anything made of genuine scraps is eligible. If your scrap collection is out of control and you’d like to turn them into something beautiful or useful instead of leaving them to collect dust in the cupboard, why not join us on the 15th of each month? Either email me at the address on my Contact Me page, or leave a comment below. You can also contact Gun via her blog to join. We welcome new members. You don’t have to worry about making a long term commitment or even join in every month, just let either of us know a day or so in advance if you’re new and you’ll have something to show, so we can add your link. Regular contributors will receive an email reminder three days before the event.

Here are the links for everyone who joins ScrapHappy from time to time (they may not post every time, but their blogs are still worth looking at). If you’ve copied this list from previous posts, please use the one below as it’s the most up to date 🙂

Kate (me!), Gun, Titti, Heléne, Eva, Sue, Nanette, Lynn, Lynda,
Birthe, Turid, Susan, Cathy, Debbierose, Tracy, Jill, Claire, Jan,
Moira, Sandra, Linda, Chris, Nancy, Alys, Kerry, Claire, Jean,
Joanne, Jon, Hayley, Dawn, Gwen, Connie, Bekki, Pauline and Sue L.

See you again, same time next month