January Scraptastic Tuesday Winners

Before I tell you about the winners of the January Scraptastic Tuesday Linkup, I'll share my scrappy progress.



Last week I said I would try to organize my scrap boxes into strips and squares leaving the other pieces in the boxes for improv sort of work. Of course I put that off until last night. It took an hour or so but I went through all the boxes of prints and took out the strips of any width that were clearly cut as a strip. I was astonished to see all these strips. I am going to look around and see if I have a jelly roll or two hanging about ignored to add to these as well as I am pretty sure I have at least two.



So before I saw all these strips (the two photos are front and back view, not two different piles),  I was considering starting a scrappy challenge quilt - a really interesting one is called the 365 Challenge here - but I am now thinking hard about it - I might still join and use my solid scraps only. Either way, I clearly have enough strips to keep me busy for a while. I am considering making:

• a giant rainbow log cabin - as big as I can go until it starts to warp too much. I made one of these a few years ago for the back of a quilt that I gave away to a special friend - you can read about it here
• some rainbow log cabin blocks to become a quilt top
• some scrappy strip sets to be used for a Blended Scraps Quilt, or another strip set type of quilt (rail fence, spider web, zig zag, another hst layout)

Do you have any other suggestions? I am going to continue with my plan from last week to pull out the already cut squares - I just got focused on the strips last night.  Then I have to decide if I will also cut squares from the remaining scraps or not. I have in mind to make a rainbow pixelated style quilt, it will depend on how many squares I find and make.

Now its time to award the prizes for the January Scraptastic Tuesday Linkup, from these wonderful sponsors:

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A huge thank you to our generous sponsors for providing the following prizes which will be awarded randomly among those of you who link up.

• Mad About Patchwork - a $40 gift certificate - #77 - Anja at Anja Quilts 

• Fluffy Sheep Quilting - a €20 (20 Euro) gift certificate - #37 - Adrienne on Instagram as arden

• Green Fairy Quilts - $25 gift certificate - #71 - Cathy Marie at Sewing with my Sister

• Karen Lewis Textiles  - scrap pack - #60 - Debra at Feathers in my Nest

• Fat Quarter Shop - $25 gift certificate - #35 - Jannette at Quilting and Cardmaking

• Massdrop - Little Bird Fat Quarter Bundle - #13 - Debora at Studio Dragonfly Quilts

• Sew Sisters Quilt Shop - $25 gift certificate - #23 - Michelle at From Bolt to Beauty

• Simply Solids - £20 (20 Pounds) gift certificate - #51 - Cynthia at Cynthia Bentz Designs

Congratulations to all our winners and thank you to everyone who linked up for the lovely inspiration. I will be sending emails shortly to get the prizes to people.

Do go and take a look at the various projects linked up in January (go here) if you have not yet done so, there is a lot of scrappy inspiration.

Please plan to join Nicky from Mrs. Sew and Sow and I for February's Scraptastic Tuesday Link up on the second Tuesday in February which is February 9, 2016.

Best,

Leanne