Tangerine + Blueberries quilt blocks

a new Scrap Cabin cluster

I am mired in the week of the boxes. Stacking boxes, lugging boxes, unpacking boxes, searching desperately for one essential tiny item in big, chaotic boxes. But, back before the boxes took over, I used to have a sewing room with drawers and surfaces and organized piles of happy fabrics.

Once upon a time I sewed a cluster of Scrap Cabin blocks, to share with you during this week of boxes.

It all began with sorting out low volume scraps from my basket of neutral/purples. Since it didn’t matter how wide or long, I found I had so many string scraps that are overall light in color. That’s all that low volume means, after all.

Next I chose colors for my Scrap Cabin blocks. This time I am going for a high contrast, color-rich quilt. What if each cluster is made up of complementary colors? And perhaps the border is a wild mix of everything? Fun!

For this first cluster I have combined blue and orange. I sorted my blue/orange string scraps into piles of light and dark color. If a fabric was too difficult to categories as light or dark, I excluded it from the project.

And, ta da! That’s a Scrap Cabin cluster. It’s made up of four separate Scrap Cabin quilt blocks, each one anchored by a golden square at center. Sewing these blocks with random width scraps creates such a lively, organic character. I love it!

Take a good look at the amount of scraps still lounging on my sewing table when I was done. Isn’t it always mind-boggling how far fabric scraps go?

I ended up using mainly tangerine oranges and blueberry blues in my blocks this time. I can imagine making another Scrap Cabin cluster with peachy/red oranges and aqua/turquoise blues. But first, let’s unpack those boxes…

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