While working on the Civil War BOW last year, I first heard the term "poverty fabric" to describe piecing scraps of fabric to make pieces large enough to use for a part of a block. The term made me smile as I thought about our foremothers who made do... or did without.
In the beginning, I wasn't as careful cutting out the fabrics for the Jacob's Ladder blocks as I should have been and, as I got closer to finishing the 48 blocks, I started running out of fabric. So.... I pieced some scraps to finish a block....
I had to get a bit creative with some of the piecing...
...but was able to use just about every bit of fabric from the FQs that I had selected for this quilt.
I think my foremothers would be proud of me!
