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ScrapHappy March 2026: Scrappiness About the New Home

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Hello, it’s the 15th of the month and I’ve rejoined the monthly ScrapHappy posting group hosted by Kate of Tall Tales From Chiconia.

Here are links to the blogs of the ScrapHappy participants:

Kate, Eva, Sue, Lynda, Birthe, Turid, Tracy, Jan, 
Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys, Claire, Jean, Dawn, Gwen,
Sunny, Kjerstin, Sue L, Vera, Ann, Dawn 2, Carol, Preeti,
Viv, Karrin,  Alissa, Tierney, Hannah and Maggie

I’ve completely fallen off the blog-o-sphere with the move to our new home. After days of endless packing now there are now days of endless unpacking.

We closed on the house on March 2 and the began moving in over a couple of days via many carloads and then on March 5th we had professional movers move our large furniture items.

My new studio in the loft of our new home currently looks like this:

So there are no scrappy creations to report for March’s ScrapHappy post.

However I wanted to participate in this monthly celebration of working with scraps/recycled materials so I will provide a tour of some of the scrappy quilts now on display in my new home.

I don’t do well living in chaos so John and I have diligently worked over the past week to get the main floor of our new home livable and even kind of cozy.

1) Scrappy quilt in my new living room on the sofa:

This quilt was made in the 2000s with batik fabric scraps.

2) Scrappy denim quilt hanging on the wall of the new living room:

Made from recycled denim and home decor fabric samples.

3) Scrappy mini quilt wall hanging in the new living room:

A piece I made in a hand embroidery class at the Stitchin’ Post in Sisters, Oregon when I lived in Central Oregon.

4) Scrappy quilt hanging on the wall in the new kitchen:

This quilt was made with Northcott Fabric’s Stonehenge line scraps. Year ago I was completely in love with this fabric line and a friend their large collection of Stonehenge scraps. Along with a set of fat quarters from the fabric line I made this quilt.

5) Scrappy quilt used as tablecloth in new kitchen:

This quilt is composed of scrappy pieced blocks set in Peppered Cotton.

6) Another scrappy quilt made with Northcott’s Stonehenge fabric line scraps, hanging on the wall across from the new kitchen:

I had so many Stonehenge scraps I made another quilt with the stash.

7) My scrappy quilt The Lesson and the Equation I made for the show Visioning Human Rights in the New Millennium: Quilting the World’s Conscience, hanging in my new dining room/library:

I call this my “Dad Quilt” as the lessons my father taught my sibling and I inspired it.

8) My scrappy quilt Trees Outside My Window hanging in the stairway up to the loft:

Improvisational pieced fabric scraps along with trees I stamped on fabric were used to create this very scrappy quilt.

9) Scrappy (and not ironed yet) table runner in my new dining room/library:

My friend Wendy H. that some of you have met through my blog gave me a collection of leftover pieced blocks and fabric scraps which I turned into the table runner.

10) Another scrappy quilt made primarily with batik fabric scraps, in the stairwell down to the basement:

11) A couple scrappy denim, clothing and home decor fabric scraps wall hanging in our new primary bedroom:

12) Scrappy quilt in the new dining room/library for snuggling under while reading:

There are more scrappy quilts hung about the house but I figured a sampling of 12 was enough for this post.

Apologies that I currently can’t keep up on my blogging buddies posts or read/reply to comments on my posts right now, but I plan to catch up someday.

We have our first out of town visitors to our new home arriving this upcoming week so we are trying to get the basement guest room together. I feel like I have one operational brain cell right now…

Looking forward to settling back into regular life again someday 🙂

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23 thoughts on “ScrapHappy March 2026: Scrappiness About the New Home”

  1. I am so impressed by what you have achieved in a short time! Your house looks so settled and organised. except your studio, but I am sure you have plans to get that ship-shape very soon. Enjoy your new space.

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  3. This was an excellent post, Tierney, thank you. I loved seeing all your quilts together like this, and I love your style. As you know I’m not a quilter, so I’m always a little but in awe of the skill and work in all quilting, buts there’s also something else special about these. Perhaps it’s that they feel a little more free in construction and layout than many? Or perhaps it’s that the colours work so well? I feel something similar when I look at Kate’s quilts. Regardless, I love them, and congratulations on your move. 😃

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    1. Thanks so much Dawn 🙂

      It was fun to have a fresh slate for deciding how and where to hang things and how they would work best together. We had to do some additional purging (not on quilts but on knick knacks) while unpacking to be honest with ourselves of what really fits/works.

      I love your work, you are an amazing artist!

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  4. gosh, the two of you have been really busy making the new house so welcoming in such a short time. I’ve done a fair few home moves in my day (husband was French army for over 30 years) and it always took quite a while to get things unpacked and rooms looking how we wanted.

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  5. Time to sit down and have a cup of tea – I can’t believe how much you’ve accomplished in such a short time! The quilts are so gorgeous, and seeing them all together is so interesting. Thanks for that mini tour – go get that tea!

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  6. I am so, so impressed with how you’ve pulled your main floor together, complete with display pieces, art, and your stunning quilt collection. This is a wonderfully uplifiing post. I enjoyed seeing what you’ve chosed to hang and where. Best of luck with the rest of the house. You’re off to a wonderful start.

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  7. oh my goodness, you’ve settled in so quickly, looks like you’ve been there for years. Your collection of quilts are beautifully displayed, it is lovely that you live with them and can enjoy them every day – that they are not stored away in a cupboard. Now go get that workroom sorted out – after a cuppa!

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    1. You are too kind! Thanks for saying it looks very settled in. I am pleased how my quilt collection is working on the new house. There are some I had up at the old house that I had to put away as I didn’t have enough space in the new house and that’s okay – they can have a rest in the closet for a while and maybe be pulled out in the future. Yes first a cuppa then workroom! I am actually up there today beginning to sort the scariness. I feel like a hoarder, ha! 😉

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  10. Wow, you have accomplished so much!

    I have admired many of these quilts in your posts over the years, and it is lovely to get to see them all together in one place. Today the ones that are really speaking to me are the tree quilt and the to-snuggle-under scrappy quilt — I love to make improv blocks too but these quilts tell me that maybe I should space those blocks out more, or use a unifying image — there is always so much inspiration in your quilts!

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