"Scattered Heart" for PQ Challenge 11 week 3!

Scattered Heart

This week's challenge for Project Quilting is "Put a Heart on It". So many ideas absolutely overwhelmed me from this theme that I almost walked away from the challenge for the week. It was important to get through my work week, and then see where my mind and creative flow would take me. Early Saturday brought part of a plan for something too large to complete in the time left. I decided to sleep on it (day sleeper because I work 3rd shift) and come back to it Saturday night.

I dug out my bags of small scraps...

...and started making fabric.

I cut my new fabric into 1 1/2" strips making sure to get a variety of colors. Then I grabbed what I call my bag of "shade" scraps to decide what will be the background, binding and backing for this project. A glittery white was chosen for the background and binding. Blacks and dark greys were chosen for the backing.

After some fun piecing, the top was ready for my newest mugrug.

I love the scrappy look with those 1" strips!! The glitter on the white is pretty great, too. 

Now it's time to sandwich the layers, quilt, and bind. When doing small projects like this (it will finish at 8"×8"), I will use up small pieces of batting. It is a great opportunity to reduce my waste, so I will save pieces as small as 3"×7" and combine them with other small pieces to get the size I need. Due to using them in mugrugs, I slightly overlap and also make sure that I am quilting the project enough in all the right directions to keep it all in place. After quilting, I trim everything up and put on the binding. 

Say hello to "Scattered Heart"! I am naming it this after such a scattered week of ideas to get this fun finish. 

First we have the top:

And the back:

"Scattered Heart" finishes at 8"×8" and was created in Arlington, WI for Project Quilting Season 11, Week 3 - Put a Heart on It.

As always, keep quilting!

Fawn