These quilts were started in 2019 after a conversation with a fellow guild member where she showed me some blocks she had made. I decided to make some of these using my scraps. Now it is a series, apparently.
I started with green. Check the post.
Purple Strip Donation top. Check the post.
Red Strip Donation top post.
Red Chunk Donation top and post after piecing. I had a lot of red scraps, so was able to make a second quilt. Sue did the quilting. You can see the post-quilting post.
Orange Strip donation top post.
The white might be the most successful so far. It is far more monochromatic than the others. I really like it, however impractical it is for a donation quilt. I was pleased that Leann and others at the guild meeting, where Leeann showed her quilting handy work agreed with me.
I finally dipped into the blue bin and came up with a wonderful version that uses yellow as the sashing.
I was able to make Blue Strips #2 from the blue scrap bin. Not much change to the fullness of the scrap bin.
Blue Strips #3 followed in 2023. I have made a dent in my blue scraps, but probably have enough for an improv companton.
In May and June of 2021, I started and finished another of the Color Strip donation tops, this time in yellow.
In 2022, I took the leftover blocks from the various quilts above, made a few more and came up with Rainbow Strip donation quilt. I’ll definitely make another one of these as it is a good way to use up blocks when I just have 1-2 of any one colors.
After making the black blocks for the rainbow strip version above, I had a black strip quilt on my mind. I finally started it in December 2023. Mostly my black-grey-brown drawer was overflowing and I needed to clear it out. I started making black strip blocks, but quickly also started making grey blocks. I was able to finish the black quilt first. I started sashing a second group of black strip blocks at the first 2024 Sew Day.
I was able to finish a smaller version of the grey strip donation top at the first 2024 Sew Day.
In March of 2024, I finished a second grey strip donation top, Grey Strip #2, and handed it in at the following Sew Day.
I finished another black version of the strip quilt above, Black Strip #2. This one definitely looks better with a border. As you can see, I couldn’t resist adding some pink.
I made another brown quilt as well. This also came out of my brown-grey-black scrap drawer.
The companion improv quilts to these can be found on the Color Improv Donation Tops page.