I started making quilts using these strip and chunk blocks in 2019 after a conversation with a fellow guild member. She showed me some blocks she had made using foundation paper piecing. I decided to make some of these using my scraps without the foundation paper piecing. I have made so many of these quilts now that they have become part of a series.
When I started making the quilts in this style, I just made a few blocks from strips and sewed one quilt. Now I clean out my scrap drawer as completely as I can by making as many quilt tops as I can.
I use the Creative Grids 4.5 x 8.5 inch ruler** to cut the blocks out, and as a guide.
Red
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
Orange Strip donation top post.
Orange Vertical Strip donation quilt post. The vertical strips are leftover from the Orange You Glad.
Yellow
In May and June of 2021, I started and finished a yellow Color Strip donation top. I don’t have a lot of yellow scraps.
Green
I started with green and had this first on the list for a long time, but as I made more quilts in this style, I realized I needed to reorganize the page. Check the post for the first quilt in this series.
I continued the following year with Green Strips #2.
Green Strips #3 followed #2 relatively quickly. I finished it in August 2024.
Blue/Indigo
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 and had enough scraps for an improv companion.
Sidewalk #2: Blue Strips was the next donation quilt I made from blue strips. It is pretty different from what I was doing with the various strip quilts.
Violet
Purple Strip Donation top. Check the post.
White
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 Lee Ann and others at the guild meeting, where Lee Ann showed her quilting handy work agreed with me.
The White Strips #2 top/back were finished in March 2025 and handed in for someone to quilt.
Black
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 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.
Grey
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.
Brown
I made another brown quilt as well. This also came out of my brown-grey-black scrap drawer. I don’t have as much brown as I have other colors, but I made one.
Rainbow
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 leftover of any one colors.
The companion improv quilts to these can be found on the Color Improv Donation Tops page.
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