Mumm's The Word

Extreme Fussy Cutting

Another distraction this week! 

The theme for the last Studio Quilters meeting was to 'make something from the cupboard' i.e. use up a kit or finish off a UFO. I had intended to cut out a folksy style printed waistcoat pattern and make it into a wall hanging. So I dug out all my 'Debbie Mumm' scraps to add to it.

Now these started out as dressmaking scraps that I acquired in the 1990's.

 So they were originally very odd shapes with arm holes cut right through this very busy pattern ('Fruity Kitchen' by Debbie Mumm). I had cut out as many bits of the motifs as I could salvage and had already used up the off cuts of the off cuts! 

Over the years I have moved them from one box (and house) to another, every time I reorganised my stash, and vowed that one day I would find the right project for them. And this was it! 

I abandoned the wall hanging project and set about reconstructing the pieces to form a large enough panel to make a new quilt tote bag.

I framed some of the smaller squares with snippets of the striped sections to make them fit together. And I even spliced sections of the pattern together, carefully matching it up, to make it go further. 

There was even enough for two strips on the inner pockets and for matching inset strips on the handle.

It has taken me all week and I did have to laugh at myself! But now I have turned my obsessive compulsion to use up scraps into another big bag to take quilts and all my other bits around in - I always seem to have so much to carry!

Next up is Jean Hipwell's beautifully pieced top which is loaded and ready to go when it is a bit warmer up in the loft.

Happy Quilting Everyone!

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