Catch up

I've been busy the past few days and just haven't blogged.  First off,  I finished the SD quilt the same night that I posted that the quilting was done but still needed binding and label.  Here he is :)  I took him to our guild meeting this week and everyone seemed to LOVE him.

I'm still cleaning/purging my sewing room... and piecing blocks together to make 25 patch blocks for the upcoming Scalloped Potato quilt; I think I have 12 done so far - which means I have 12 more to do.  

The day before yesterday, needing a break from YIKES! cleaning, I found two pieces of cute fabric and loaded them onto Mo'e along with a scrap of batting from the charity quilt stash and yesterday, I quilted it up.  Nothing fancy, but it'll hold together and it was a design that I'd been wanting to try on fabric ( after practicing and practicing on paper).  Today, I put a faux piping border & label on and call it done.

 front

back

While downloading these pics I found one I took the other day of one of my former scrap tubs - I cleaned it out and it now holds 'strings'  and a pattern for future string quilts.

 Mind you, this is the smaller tub of scraps - the larger one is at least twice that size.   I pawed through this bin a couple of times and pulled out some fabrics that were either bigger than 'scraps' or that I wanted to cut into 2" squares... after a bit of sorting, I finally said to heck with it and put the majority of the 'mess' into a bag and took it to Colette when we had our weekly guild meeting.  I'll get to the bigger bin one of these days.

Right now, I'm going to head back into the 'stash room' and see what I can find to put onto Mo'e for another charity quilt.

TTYL


p.s,
Look what I found in one of the bins in my 'stash room'....

Three appear to be fat quarters, two are maybe 1/2 yard cuts and then there's the big piece ... I'm not sure how big, but it's big enough for a crib quilt - so I'm thinking I can use that for a backing.  Now, the question is, how do I make the top out of the other fabrics?...