M&M Sew Charming: Strip Tease

Are you drowning in 1.5" strips? Wait, what? You don't have 1.5" strips? This is madness, I say! OK - seriously ... you must have 1.5" strips. I keep mine all jumbled in a basket. Marjorie keeps her neat and tidy in a plastic shoe box. Which ever way works for you - trim up and save those strips ... we have plans!

M&M shared on the Facebook group this fun pattern to use up some strips. We called it STRIP TEASE. For obvious reasons, we are not hashtagging it. Might need to think about #hashtags when planning quilt names, in the future. Just sayin'

This is what's posted in "files" on the M&M Sew Charming Facebook group. Not a member? Join us! Like everything we do, make it your own ... make more blocks or less blocks. Add borders or not. I happen to LOVE the flying geese and made 108 of them.

I made 9 blocks all from 1.5" scrappy strips. My Flying Geese blocks (all 108) are also scrappy but I did use 1 solid neutral for the background/sky/wings part. What do you call that part?

Because my sky was neutral and my blocks were also neutral around the outer part of the inner quilt (are you with me?), I decided I needed a separator border. I simply stitched together a long string of 1.5" strips and cut to size. I bordered both sides of my Flying Geese. This is why I went from needing 104 to 108 of those lovelies.

At this point, my quilt measured 60x60 and I still wanted to make it bigger. Little hint here - I believe Marjorie plans on making more blocks. I went with another border.

This fabric has been in the tub for YEARS! Check out the selvage. I love when the selvage has a copyright date. If it didn't' ... I would never believe that I've had this fabric for 22 years. How wide did I make the outer border? I made it as wide as I could with how much fabric I had. Turned out, I could cut 6 strips at 5.5" wide. I had a teeny bit left over to be added to the scrap bins.