on cleaning around my sewing machine; I'm still doing it, but not as quickly as I should - because I'm deciding to finish things or at least work a little bit more on stuff that's 'hanging around' close by.
This is a doll quilt which may end up being a 'bed' for a dog or cat... the top was done and just 'hanging around' so I grabbed some scrap batting and a piece of scrap backing fabric, layered them together and pin basted then started quilting.. Once that was done, I went searching in my scrap binding bin and found some yellow that worked.
This was yesterday between my nap and our going to see the Bill Engvall concert - which was soo wonderful!!! FUNNY - and yet CLEAN! He was telling about his trip to Africa with his wife, Gail... If you follow Bonnie Hunter of quiltville.com, you know she just got back from Africa - let me tell you.... their experiences were soooooo different.
Anyway, today ( after another nap - this has got to stop!), I went back to cleaning again and found a plastic shoebox with lots of 2.5" squares and 2.5" x 4.5" rectangles which I've been collecting to make this quilt....
It's called Woven Scrappy Strips and I got it from Fons & Porter.com - I don't remember how long ago.
So here are my first two rows ( minus one block). I think I'm going to add another block to each row with the hopes that it will make the quilt more square. Right now, it's supposed to finish at 49 1/4" by 60 1/2". I haven't measured a block from corner to corner to see just how many I'll need, but I'm not too worried since I have LOTS of 2 1/2" blocks and enough scraps that I can use for the rectangles. I also have enough of the white for the background, too.
take care....
ttyl.....
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