My scrappy bear claw quilt has been making slow but steady progress over the last few months.
From my making a huge pile of bear claw blocks with scraps both lovely and ugly:
To putting them together with a narrow (1 inch finished) sashing and using a common yet very colorful fabric as cornerstones:
Here the finished blocks are shown laid out with 3.5″ unfinished sashing. At this point I was choosing what to use for cornerstones in the sashing:
I decided on using the background fabric as the cornerstones in order to let the bear claw blocks shine:
I ordered full bolt of the dark grey Northcott Colorworks fabric I am using for the background back in February. Sadly, I have been waiting a few months for it to come in to the quilt shop where I ordered it from (they did warn me when I ordered it that it was on back order). When it arrives I’ll decide between making slab borders and doing something a bit fancier. I’m just hoping the fabric comes in soon! However, given the number of UFO’s and amount of stash I have, it’s not like there isn’t something here that I can work on!
In the meantime my scrappy bear claw quilt top centre sits in the UFO pile waiting for that fabric to come in. Once finished this will be going on my bed. I like this too much to give it away!
I like the backgroumd color, really makes the claws pop.
So many beautiful scraps. Having a unifying background fabric really ties it all together and adds wonderful contrast.
Your bocks are beautiful, the plain sashing looks like a very good decision! Love the small center for all blocks the same.
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I love how you described the scraps you used as both lovely and ugly! They are all beautiful in these great blocks!
What a beautiful scrap buster quilt. I’ll be interested in seeing the finished quilt.
So much scrappy goodness in this quilt top. Thanks for sharing with oh Scrap.
I really like your block and top. Up close pics definitely shows the beautiful and the ugly. But, the overall picture is grand. I like how bright it is overall yet you’ve used all sorts of fabrics in each block. So I’m sitting here thinking wouldn’t it be fun to do one of these bear paw quilts? (and trying to remind myself of the UFOs I have and the fabrics already pulled for quilts.) Excellent job on great scrappy quilt.
Sorry it’s taking a while for that fabric to arrive. Hopefully it’ll be here soon and your bear paw quilt will be finished! Such a lovely collection of fabrics. Your thoughtful choices along the way have led to something very special. Thanks for sharing it on Wednesday Wait Loss.
You know, I’ve never seen a Scrappy Bear Claw quilt. It is absolutely beautiful! I totally understand you wanting to keep this one! I literally gasped and smiled when I saw that first photo! Thank you for sharing!
Love the choice for background–makes everything pop! I’m always hesitant to be too scrappy but this really works. (It’s encouraging!)
This is so pretty! It looks like stained glass
Love your Scrappy Bear Claw. Gives me hope to use my non coordinated scraps a home.
Thank you
I love this so much, Yvonne, from seeing it a few months ago that I’ve now started one too! It’s getting sewn as a leader/ender project so it’ll be some time in the making… You’ve shown (again) what beauty one can create with scraps both pretty and not-so-pretty!