Over the snowy ‘Winter Wonderland’ weekend I persevered with the task of hunting through my stash (defined as any piece of fabric larger than a fat quarter) and my colour-sorted scraps (any pieces smaller than a fat quarter!) in search of fabrics to use for Gnome Angel’s #scrappytripalong2019.
I now have a collection of 144 strips, 16″ x 2½” ready to piece into 24 scrappy Trip Around the World blocks. Well! That’s not quite true… I have already made one block, so only 138 strips left! 😀 Having cut out all those strips I was keen to test the strip piecing method in the Bonnie Hunter tutorial Angie advised we use.
Here are some photos to show how I made my first block. I enjoyed the tube method of strip piecing, making these blocks will be good practice for the Bargello quilt I hope to make one day! 😉
Six strips stitched together
Stitch the top and bottom strips together to make a tube. Then cut strips across the tube.
Unpick a different seam in each of the cut strips.
Stitch the strips together. First Scrappy Trip Around the world block completed 🙂
Up on the design wall – block one and the strips for block two.
If I make one of these blocks most days for the next four weeks I will keep on schedule with the ‘trip along’.
Linking with Judy for Design Wall Monday.
Allison
That’s a clever way to make the block! 🙂
Yeah! I think it’s a lot quicker than stitching together individual squares and more accurate too. Not all my seams match perfectly but over all the block is square and the right size which is a bit of a challenge with so many seams!
I really like this method! I’m adding this to my “to do” list 🙂
I’ve seen this done before, but I haven’t yet tried it myself yet. Your tutorial was great thanks.
Thank you!It is an effective method I think. I made a second block today – it took me 35 minutes. I’m not the speediest at patchwork piecing!
I’m glad you’ve been inspired! I’m enjoying making these blocks. I wouldn’t enjoy stitching together hundreds of individual 2.5″squares nearly so much!
I agree!
I love that block!! I did a swap for it so I have A LOT of variety in mine, now to get it finished!
Using it as a swap block would create wonderful scrap quilts. I’m on my sixth block now and so far haven’t repeated any of the fabrics. I will soon have to have some repeats but with so many fabrics hopefully they won’t dominate or stand out too much.