Scrappy Trips Cool

 Back in 1981 

Barbara Mandrell released a song called

"I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool"

I'm not a song writer

or a singer

but if I had that talent

I would write a little melody 

and serenade you with

"I was Scrappy Trips When Scrappy Trips Wasn't Cool"

 Yes, I have finished my own version of

Scrappy Trips Around The World

free pattern by

Bonnie Hunter of Quiltsville

 It seems that lately everyone

and their dog has been making

this pattern.

Have you seen the explosion of 

Scrappy Trip Alongs

on Flickr and Instagrams?

And they are all out of the cutest fabrics!

(I want a re-do)

 But, back in December of 2011 when

I  first started making my Scrappy Trips

I didn't know how COOL it would be to

make this pattern out of bright happy fabrics.

I was thinking I just wanted to use up old scraps

that were 

"no longer my kind of colors anymore"

and have a little picnic quilt

that could be thrown on the lawn.

 None of my fabrics match,

which is really OK with 

this kind of quilt,

because the pattern seems to 

emerge using lights and darks.

 In Bonnie's pattern she suggests using

2.5- inch strips.

I opted for 2-inch strips instead,

making my blocks slightly smaller.

 Finished size 45" X 73"

40 blocks total

(5 blocks across and 8 blocks down)

One of my goals for 2013 is to 

finish up 

on quilts that I have previously started.

Now that's COOL