No scrap left behind

Pulling this quilt from my UFO pile made me chuckle.  I'm a big recycler, repurposer and composter - this definitely applies to my quilting too.  I hate throwing things away or wasting things.  I even find great pleasure in being able to use a pencil or a pen until it doesn't write anymore - which doesn't happen often.  This flannel quilt is a perfect example.  This quilt is made up of left over blocks and fabrics from a previous flannel quilt that I made as a Christmas present for my older son a few years back called The Fireside Flannel Quilt.
I don't follow quilt patterns to the tee, I expand the design to fit my purpose.  Of course during this process I end up making more blocks than what I need.  Since I'm not sure how big the finish quilt will be I end up purchasing more fabric than what is called for.   Fabric buying is all a guesstimate.  Most of the time I purchase too much fabric, but sometimes I desperately try to find more of a certain fabric to finish a quilt.  Looking through my quilts you will see the same fabric in two or three different quilts - sometimes a lot of a fabric or other times just a few squares.
Although the outside blocks are the same as the original quilt - the center is very different.  In fact, when I unfolded this quilt I forgot how I inserted the middle block with no seams in the background fabric - which would be a traditional way to sew this.  Looking on the back of this quilt it looks like I folded the background fabric in fours to find the center and the four corners to insert the square block.  I then drew a square the same size as the block to be inserted in this area and measured a 1/4 inch seam allow inside the square and cut it out.  I preceded to sew the square in this hole leaving the 1/4 inch seam allowance at each corner so I could easily turn the corners.  It lays nice and flat so my method worked.
So now number 10 is completed from my UFO pile.

This quilt was made from the leftover fabric of the quilt below.
I love the buffalo check flannel fabric in the center of this quilt.  This is a nice cozy quilt.

Here is the original Fireside Flannel Quilt

Fireside Flannel Quilt closeup