Yes, these are more of the omnipresent Classic Pooh scraps. Two of my mothers three grandchildren had Classic Pooh nurseries (the other had all trademark figures banned; we are not a family of compromise). Then there are all the other babies born around me & what with living so near the Magic Kingdom, most people consider Pooh a basic. Like black. Or plaid.
It made sense to buy what I saw on sale & just hang on to it. When I got down to more minuscule pieces, it was hard to just toss them, so I would run them through the machine "just to catch the threads". Then I would iron them, to practice my ironing...? They would grow into these odd, amorphous, blobby shapes -much like the man himself- only to be squared off, sewn together & Voila! Scraps gone wild.
Years after I made this first scraps gone wild quilt top, I came across someone in blog-land (I do not remember who, I would give you credit if I did) who framed her scraps on three sides with white. She was going for ultimately uniform squares but still it segwayed nicely into what I was already doing. What with printing a lot of photos on fabric I have a lot of strips of bleached muslin.
So I have started to add scraps, orphans block parts, previously unused scraps gone wild to the strips. When I have a few in more or less the same width, I attach them. Then maybe border them in white. & keep going.
I have become one of those cooks who is more interested in the left-overs than the main course.
If that's not a string quilt, I don't know what to call it! I have a tendency to fixate on using scraps too.
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