Positive/Negative Chains and Introducing Boxer rebellion...

More progress on my positive/negative scrap project!  I made big blocks from my little positive/negative units...now they are 4-patches made up of 2 positive and 2 negative units for each 9 inch (finished) block.  I have 48 of them, pinned on my horrid pink college blanket design wall, set 6 x 8 (should finish about 54 x 72). 

I may stop at this size and add a skinny stop border and a wider outer border.  This pretty much uses up all the delectable scrappiness I had cut up in this project box.  I fear it becoming a UFO if I try and wait to make more blocks...at least that is what I am feeling right now.  We'll see...they are really fun to make.

It has been a VERY satisfying project, but there are other scrappy things calling my name...like my green/neutral log cabin blocks.

But mostly, I'm yearning to do some applique...

Mr. Fabric Therapy likes this project...he says scrappy quilts look more like God intended quilts to be..."bed covers made from old clothes and unwanted bits of fabric."  Oh don't get me wrong - he is very supportive of my quilting - he is my biggest fan.  Last time he was on his soap box (and my eyes stopped rolling to the back of my head), I decided that I would give him EXACTLY what he wanted. 

I have started saving his old, cotton, printed boxer shorts to make him a little quilt some day...maybe a wall hanging that would hang prominently near his desk at work, LOL.  I wish I had thought of this sooner, as I have already thrown some faded, old ones away.  We'll see how he feels when it's HIS old undies, made into a quilt, hanging for all to see.  I already have a name for this project...BOXER REBELLION...

Now I hope I can scrape together enough pairs to make this...would you believe I saw some at a yard sale at the beginning of the summer?  The woman said she was going to use proceeds from the sale to buy her husband new underwear.  I hope the poor man isn't "going commando" in the mean time...

In stitches,
Teresa  :o)