Lost Ships

I love scrappy quilts.

This one has a lot of clothing scraps in it. Blue is by far my favorite color, so I always have a large amount of it in large and small amounts.

One fabric in particular was a white background with little cobalt blue sailing ships printed on it. It came from a little shirt I made my son when he was a preschooler. ( I made all his shirts until he went to school.)

The intriguing thing about making scrap quilts is the huge amount of mixture you can get in the small half squares. This was before I learned how to make the quick-sew half squares. It's very time consuming cutting out individual triangles and sewing them together.

Here's how to make them the fast way.

Go to: http://www.patchwork-and-quilting.com/calculating-half-square-triangles.html and follow the page instructions on how to measure and sew a big bunch of these little darlings. Click the link on "Grid Pieced Method" to see how to sew and cut them en mass.

Good stuff on this site.

This method is much quicker, easier and less hassle than doing the squares individually.