Was anyone into that "Watercolor quilt" phase of the 90's? It was a pretty cool technique. I took a class, made a couple quilts, and ended up with 100s of little 2 inch squares leftover.
One of the cool ideas I got from the class was to use pizza boxes (clean/unused) for all of the squares. I just went to my local pizza place and they gave me a few! I organized the squares in little stacks by print and value. And of course I saved them all. Back in June, Alicia wrote about a great way to piece squares. That was my ah ha moment! What to do with those pesky leftovers! Good thing fabric doesn't spoil.
The idea is to use lightweight fusible interfacing. Arrange your squares on the fusible side, butted up against each other, and then, iron away!
Next, with a 1/4 inch seam, sew each row of squares together.
At this point, it's most important to press VERY WELL, with all seams going in one direction.
From the right side, your block will look like rectangles.
Next, stitch the remaining seams. Miraculously you should have perfectly matched corners.
Using a quilting foot (1/4 ") is very helpful here.
There you have it!
Another UFO! Hopefully it won't be another decade before I turn this into something. Maybe a pillow. Yeah that's the ticket.
