Productive weekend

Before I start 'talking' about this past weekend, I want to share my RSC 2020 for this month ( which I forgot to post about earlier)

I had to scramble around to find a scrap piece of teal, but I found one strip just wide enough to do the flowers and I grabbed some scrap greens for the leaves.  The pattern is this month's BOM for fatcatpatterns.com sew along.  I can't remember the name of it, but most months have cats on them.

Ok, after my little OOPS! in finishing the PQ 11.5 last week, I decided that Saturday I would just 'putter'... I have a small waste basket on the table by my sewing machine that I have been tossing scraps into; it was starting to overflow so it was definitely time to put them into something.

The blocks and the adding paper strip were what I came up with.  If the strips were too short to add to the string blocks, they went onto the adding machine tape.

Ok, enough of that... on to something else....

In a plastic tray ( similar to a kitty litter tray), under the table next to my sewing machine is a collection of Christmas fabrics... all less than a yard, I believe... along with a pattern for an Ugly Christmas sweater mug rug.  Everything, except for the felt I chose to put on the back ( you can see it's edges around the sweater) came from scraps.  This was a lot of fun to make and I can see myself making more throughout the year so that I'll have a small collection come Christmas time.  These sweaters are anything but ugly.  

The pattern is by Cynthia Staub of Quilt Doodle Designs.

Next up, another new to me project... this one using two fat quarters and some scrap batting.  It's called a 'Storage Pod' and I found it on www.fabriceditions.com.  This is a pic of it almost finished... all that needed doing was stitching 1/4" around the top and stitching closed the opening in the lining.  I think it turned out cute.... haven't the slightest idea what I'll use it for, but I like it well enough that I've picked out two more fat quarters to make another one.

All of the above was on Saturday.... on Sunday, came this....

I had some vintage strips that were given to me by a 'fabric fairy' at some point in time... they were pink with tiny hearts.  Since the strips were about 4" wide and quite long, I'm going to assume they were intended for a quilt border - why they weren't used is anyone's guess.  I trimmed them down to 2" strips and used them for sashing and inner borders.  Using the adding machine tape strips that I made the day before, and adding ones I'd done at earlier times, I was able to make the outer borders.  My vertical sashing strips didn't all line up like they were supposed to, but I honestly did try to line them up correctly. 

I had every intention of blogging last night, but I 'made the mistake' of going back into my sewing room... can't remember why, but I ended up making some more flower petals for the quilt pattern below.  I had started it last month and spent the guild's sew in weekend tracing all the petals and centers onto paper back fusible only to forget about the project once I got back home ( there's been a lot going on is my excuse).  Last night, I did the orange and the blue flower petals.  The orange was from a piece of yardage ( think it might have been 1/2 yard) instead of delving into the orange/yellow scrap bin - not what I intended, so I think I'll be going and getting into that o/y scrap bin to see if I can come up with enough to mix in with these orange petals and make two orange flowers. 

You can't see it in the photo but under that top blue flower petal are 9 other petals that are in the teal range- yes, I found some more...

And that's it for my productive weekend.... other than a little cleaning in my sewing room... emphasis on little because, of course, I kept getting distracted.

take care......
ttyl............