Cleaning up

The past couple of weeks I've spent time making sense of bits and pieces and parts of projects.  I just had to get them out of my brain and to the point of being basted...then they could sit again and wait. But at least they got to this point.  

I used what I had and some of what I'd inherited, including piecing together batting from Friend Marilyn's discarded stuff.

In these photos the pieces are wrinkly but the pieces were nice and crisply layed out in the beginning, then they got folded and sat for a week.

These teeny HSTs were in a bag of Sally's things I got at retreat a time or two ago.  Sally does teeny tiny work and if she is letting something go, well, I figure she already did the hard part. So I sewed them together, gave them a border and they'll go well either on a table or not. But they aren't in a jumble bag anymore.

I was to the point of quilting this.  I chose big stitch and took it to retreat and didn't get near to finishing it even a quarter of the way.  Well, enough is enough. I finished it, bound it and will sew that down.  Done.

This was as far as I got in Audrey's Bramble lessons.  I got distracted then tired of it so it sat folded up. I put the outer borders on and it's as big as it's going to get. I actually like this a lot.

More of Sally's mini nine patches.  I chose what worked with brown and this picture print

which I love and will hang somewhere.  Trust me, it won't be this wobbly when I quilt it. 

This was the first one I tackled.  More of Sally's nine patches and when I realized I didn't have enough of what I used separating the nines, I used them to separate the nines.  Then when I audition threw the tomatoes on top I just stood back and smiled. This is my favorite.  

Remember the Little Women dish towel?  It was either going to go big or go home.  It went home. Again, I got tired of looking at all these orphans and just tagged a border on this and called it done. I think I know where it's going to go.

I spent time on this one.  Again, Sally's nine patches in 30s prints. I spaced them with a little cherry print and put a little space border on and that yellow is old, old fabric. I made a pink scrappy border from yet more of Sally's 30s prints I inherited several retreats ago.  I do love a nine patch and so does Sally, as you can see.

As if I need more UFOs, I was in our local thrift store two days in a row and on the second day the craft room had several unfinished cross stitch squares.  This group was finished. There are six and I couldn't leave them there when all six had a total price tag of $1.00.  I'll trim and just do a simple summer border and make a simple summer cover. No fuss or muss but they will be constructed.

Now, I'm on to the project that uses the bird fabric I asked for help with a couple of posts ago.  I was going to do an Irish chain but the pattern calls for 2 5/8 yards and I only have 2 and for it to work I need the larger amount.  So I decided on a snowball quilt because I can intersperse many coordinating colors along with the birds.  It was actually quite fun to pull a pile of fabrics to use.  I just need to be home long enough to start.