I didn't believe it could happen, but the scrap bin is empty!

I've witnessed a minor miracle: my bin of dark strings is empty!

For the last four weeks, I've been working on this rectangular string quilt.

My guidelines were: 1.5 inch neutral strip on the diagonal,

bright strings on one side, and black prints on the other.

I had lots of strings and small scraps,

and I even cut a few strips off of yardage at the end for variety.

Check out my process at the String Thing Along Blog.

Here's a closer look.

I made 15 of these diamonds, 60 blocks in total.

It measured 60 inches wide and 54 inches high,

and the piano key borders brought it up to about 65 inches long.

Many of the bright scraps and strings

(see what I did there?)

came from cutting 2.5 inch strips for these mini-trip around the world blocks.

My guild is making blocks in brights and whites

for a charity quilt or two.

Three of us made these 36 blocks last month.

And yes, I know there's a block laid out wrong.

We haven't sewn any blocks together yet.

So I'm proof it can happen. We can run out of scraps.

But I'm not worried. I can always make more!