Scrap quilting

This is a project from the UFO list last year.   I had  some leftover flying geese and scraps from a Block of the Month quilt I made a few years ago.   I am making a table runner with it. I saw a pattern called “Elegant Runner” by Terry Albers in Fons & Porter’s Easy Quilts, Fall 2012.  I put it in the bag with the scraps and this uses her pattern.  Of course, the dimensions are all different, but the idea is Terry’s.

                  

Some lessons I learned:

1. There is never enough fabric in your scraps in the colors you need
2. Thangles can help you squeeze half square triangles ⬕ out of fabric that is too short to do it the normal way.
3. Keep on working with what you have

So far I have:

1. Flying geese assembled into four pieces with some border fabric
2. 4 stars made with thangles and
3. more scraps

The plan is to make the the 8″ block be surrounded by some of the leftover fabric and maybe a black inner border to finish the table runner.   

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