June starts the Strip Tease Challenge!

Do you have Jelly Rolls you've bought but never used?  Baskets of strips cut and waiting?  June 1st is the beginning of the Strip Tease Challenge on Stashbusters Yahoo Group!   Use your old moldy Jelly Rolls, Honey Buns, or strips you've cut but have never used.

Stephanie in Australia is sorting through her various boxes, bags, and totes.   So far she's found SIX different strip stashes!  I have a basket just for 2.5" strips and happily pulled it out.  What a disappointment! Over the last few years I've raided it a lot and there wasn't enough strips to make a quilt.  How could that be?  So I sorted my bits and bobs, scrap baskets, leftover backing pieces and cut more strips.  I cut strips for three days.  I have three new starts planned--

Hoytyville, Lorri2Rs has the book its in--

Hoytyville Quilt

It uses black/white prints, black TOT's, and jewel tone brights.  Lorri2Rs cut me lots of black/whites and I had quite a few.  And I bought some.  😊  There is in a project tote with the strips and directions packed in the camper.  It uses 2.5" strips.

Project #2 is Quarter Log Cabin, its a free pattern--

Quarter Log Cabin--Copyright 2015 By Liz Katsuro

There are many different layouts, but I really like this one!  I'm going to use my strip basket and make it scrappy.  2.5" strips. 

My third strip project is Weedwacker--

Weedwacker by Bonnie Hunter

Its by Bonnie Hunter and the pattern is free.  It uses 2" strips and I was planning to resize it for 2.5" strips, but 2" strips are a more efficient use of a WOF.  I cut strips from my stash/scrap box.  The neutral squares are from my scrap box, so the smaller squares work better.  Thank you Bonnie for sharing your pattern. 

I have other projects using strips--Black & White strips to make 4 patches for a Bricks and Stepping Stones quilt because I have lots of precut "bricks" from scraps.  Its my "go-to" pattern for a donation quilt.  Another free Bonnie Hunter pattern--thank you Bonnie!
 
Its summer and that's when I work on piecing and hand sewing binding.  I have to limit my binding time--carpal tunnel, bursitis in my elbow, and worn out shoulders. I have splints to wear at night and during the day if my arms ache.

They're not too uncomfortable, they custom mold them for you while you wait.  Hard plastic with velcro fasteners--you picked what color you wanted.  The green was not pretty so I got blue ones.  There was hot pink and several blues, browns, purple, orange, black, white and the velcro came in several colors too.  Camo even.  

The Strip Tease Challenge is for June & July--but I'm sure mine will drag out much longer.  Thanks okay, I'm looking forward to these projects.  Please feel free to join us at Stashbusters Yahoo Group.  We're all about finishing projects and using our stash!  

LORI--In Nebraska again!