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Scrappy Bargello is a Top

March 8, 2026 7:55 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

I finished my Scrappy Bargello.

I also tamed my 2 1/2″ wide scraps. Anything over 12″ was sorted by color and rolled up. Those bags on the left fit in top of the box.  The zip top bag is to hopefully keeps them contained.  I can get the box shut, but only because of the 3 1/2 yards pulled for the quilt.  I’ve also sorted by color the 2 1/2″ squares and rectangles.  To think that at one point I had them all in a single shoe box (squares and rectangles)!

The post title is Scrappy Bargello is a Top, but I was able to quilt it this afternoon.  It has now been added to the binding stack. Neither quilt will take that long to bind, I just need to do it – preferably before the next guild meeting on the 16th.

Posted in: Scrappy Bargello, scraps

What I’m Working on Wednesday – 3/4/26

March 5, 2026 4:31 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

It’s late Thursday afternoon. I received a call Wednesday from my LQS asking me to cut more shop hop block kits, so that’s all I did yesterday, but prior to that I was working in my 2 1/2″ scraps.  I contained my strips, then started in on my bricks and squares. I really thought I had a “ton” and needed to find a pattern to use them up. (No, I have not finished Scrappy Bargello).

After separating the squares from the rectangles it’s not as overwhelming, but none the less, I’ve found two patterns.

The first the potato chip block. All rectangles.  I started pulling the light rectangles.  I need 180 light rectangles and I only have 90.  I’ve bagged them, putting them and the pattern in the box for later.

I regrouped, and looked at my squares.  This is a take on a free Fat Quarter Shop table runner. I’ve pulled yardage for the background and stared sorting the squares by color.  As I needed to clear the tables to work on the shop hop blocks, I have no idea if I have enough squares precut.  For now, I’ve put the pattern in the box and the yardage back on the shelf.

Which brings me back to Scrappy Bargello.  The shop hop blocks are kitted and will be taken to the shop in the morning, so this evening I plan on working on this quilt and continuing Rivianna as my leader/ender. Who knows, I might even get Eclipse bound this weekend.

Posted in: designwall, Rivanna, Scrappy Bargello, scraps

Handwork Tuesday – 3/3/26

March 3, 2026 11:59 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

This Handwork Tuesday I added a few neutral hexies to this section

and prepped the blue hexies for the next row.

I didn’t get more done as I was corralling my 2 1/2 inch strips and bits. The strips are all pressed so they now fit into the bin. I carefully folded the pile and placed it on the bottom of the bin, the topped it off with the bags and bundles of strips.  At some point, I’ll return to the box to sort by color and roll them up.

The pile in the lower left corner of the picture are those bits which are less than 10″ long.  At some point I’ll trim them into squares and rectangles, but I need to tackle the shoebox of squares and rectangles – pressing them flat and sorting by color. Once that’s done I think I need another quilt using 2 1/2″ squares and 2 1/2″ x 4 1/2″ rectangles.  But first I need to finish Scrappy Bargello, Disappearing Hourglass, and get the binding on Eclipse.

Posted in: EPP, Handwork Tuesday, Hexies, scraps, Trip Around the World

Scraps!

March 2, 2026 10:38 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

In one of my Facebook quilting groups, the February challenge was doing something with your scraps.  My goal was to clear the pile of scraps my sister left me and clear the treadle machine.  I processed some of the scraps using Bonnie Hunter’s Scrap Users System, then simple packed the rest away in a box.

That top box contains the scraps from the the treadle, along with a couple of bundles of FQs.  I don’t have space in my FQ boxes, so I just threw them in with the scraps.  The Amazon box and crate are the scraps I cleared off the tables in January before my sister arrived.

Here are more scraps. This box is under the front of my longarm. It looks like there are a couple of pieces yardage in this box.

Under the longarm on the back side are these two crates.

Then there are these. In theory these are my precut scraps.  There are a couple of boxes of shirt scraps. Some of these boxes barely close. I can’t really ‘process’ more scraps until I use some of them.  So I need a scrappy quilt in my future. I just need to find a pattern.

 

 

 

Posted in: scraps, Uncategorized

What I’m Working on Wednesday – 2/11/26

February 11, 2026 11:12 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

I’m a little all over the place this week.  In the top left are my Rivanna 9-patch units that I’m building as my leader/ender. The green and white comes from stack of scraps my sister left for me.  We are doing an on-going series of Disappearing Blocks at the Quilters By Hearts Desire Meeting and this month is Disappearing Hour Glass.

The pink, lavender and white is Eclipse,  5 yard quilt that I enlarged. I really would like to get it finished this week, but I’m not holding my breath.

The turquoise and gray is the 2nd section of Just Takes Two. It’s hanging out as a reminder to work on it this upcoming 4th Saturday.

Finally in the middle is my hand work hexie project.  It doesn’t looks like much now, but I promise it’s going somewhere. – slowly.  I have hexies cut that I need to prep for the section I’m working on. It’s actually pined on the wall in the wrong location, but that’s where it fit.

 

Posted in: 4th Saturday, Disappearing Blocks, Eclipse, JT2, Leaders & Enders, Rivanna, scraps, Trip Around the World

A Few Busy Weeks

February 9, 2026 1:32 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

These are not my quilts.  My sister came to visit to use the long arm and stay with me after surgery. In the 3 weeks she was here she put in 1,064,708 stitches on the longarm and used 25 + yards of batting.  With the exception of the table runner on the right which just needed binding, the rest were quilted and bound while she was here. Two of the t-shirt quilts (the one with the pink shirt and the one with the ‘safety’ shirt) were pieced. Additionally, she quilted & bound the table runner shown below.

So, what have I been doing?

Over the weekend, I finished piecing the squares for Eclipse.  I have 2 rows sewn together. I hope to get it finished this week. I also pulled out Rivanna and I’m piecing 9-patch sections as my leader/ender. Once Eclipse is a top, Rivanna will become my main project and the Color/Netural 9-patches will slide back as my leader/enders. I just have blue, turquoise and purple squares to go.

On the handwork front, I added the blue hexie to the ‘wing’ and attached the wing to the center.  I need to find a different size needle to work with that doesn’t stress my hand. The next time I pick up this project I’ll be prepping the hexies. Over the weekend I cut more light, pink and blue. I have enough green to make the round. I just need to decide if I’m going to do the round, or do another ‘wing’.

I also need to deal with this pile of fabric. It’s stuff my sister left for me.

Posted in: Eclipse, Hexies, Rivanna, scraps

Quilt Studio Cleaning

January 12, 2026 8:24 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

It’s an ongoing battle to keep the mountains of fabric beat back. Between multiple on-going projects and the desire or need to move to the next project, stuff gets piled on my tables. Honestly, I’m not sure when I last saw the surface of that far table.  It’s supposed to be be my cutting table.  But instead of speeding ahead into my next project I started working on the tables. I have a deadline — Sunday.  My sister will be here for 2 week sharing the space with me.

On the near left corner is fabric which needs to make it into one of my FQ bins. I’m stacking it because I’m sure there is more and my fabric bins are stuffed.  I may need to shuffle fabric to get it all put away. On the stool in front of the far table is yardage. Honestly I’m not sure there’s room in the cabinet, but I can’t put it in there without more comic book boards, so I gave in and ordered them. They should be here sometime today.

As I’ve been cleaning up the scraps I’ve added them to my strips bins — selvedges, strings, 1 1/2″, 2″ and 2 1/2″ strips. Only the very top layer is new and there is more on the table.  In fact I counted 5 bags and bins of scrap fabric. There’s one on the floor by the table, a bag on the table and 3 bins under my longarm. Maybe after I get through a couple more of my UFOs I’ll do a scrap quilt.

This is the next quilt I plan to finish.  It is the 2nd version of the 2025 Brandon Quilters Mystery Quilt. I want to put in sashing and cornerstones. But first I have to finish the cleaning.

 

Posted in: Chain of Blossoms, cleaning, mystery quilts, scraps

Little Laura Notebook Covers and Lighting Matters

February 16, 2025 5:17 pm ⋅

Last night I finished the 10 remaining Little Laura Notebook Covers.  I think that means I’ve made 31 and I have 18 left.  Now I need a place to put the rest of the snaps and notebooks.

I have decided the snaps will go in the box with the rest of the notebooks and on the top of my wire shelf.  Maybe I won’t forget where they are.

Then I drove down to Ritzy Quilting Company. Danielle doesn’t reorder fabric except for basics. She posted the most gorgeous wide backing in teal, fuchsia and blue with gold running through it called Midas Touch.  I don’t have a quilt in the queue this would go with, but I know if I don’t get it NOW, she won’t have it when she gets back in 2 weeks after vending at 2 quilt shows.  My SIL, Ruby likes it as well.

 

Then I saw the Manufacturer’s image of the backing.  Whoa.  Now it’s Teal & Purple with Gold.  I still don’t have a quilt in the queue, but it might work for a quilt I’m making for my SIL Penny’s sister. I sent her the picture and she agreed.

So off to Crystal Springs I go.

 

It’s probably too light for Penny’s quilt and Ruby thinks it’s too dark.  Naturally I buy 9 YARDS!  My thought process is 3 quilts, or 2 quilts, 4 pillow cases & borders.

But here it is in my quilt studio.  It’s different again.  I said something to my brother and he said it has to do with the angle of the camera and how the light is bouncing off the fabric.  I don’t know if I’ll use it in the quilt top, but I’ll definitely use it for color inspiration.

While I was at the shop, I was given a bag of scraps.  Guess what I’m turning them into?  But this will be it.  I only have 12 notebooks left. I guess I’ll need to find another place to store my snaps.

Posted in: Lauras Little Notebook, scraps

Digging Through Boxes

February 18, 2021 9:25 am ⋅

I need to cut more Easy Breezy blocks, but I didn’t want to drag out my FQ boxes.  I have 8 12-gallon flip top crates under my longarm table, many of them full of scraps, so I decided to dig into those.

This first box apparently has the red and green scraps according to the card I found.  I didn’t look in the sack, but I did pull out other interesting things.

5 pillowcases kitted up and ready to sew. Also in the bag with these were several decorator fabric zipper bags kitted up.  Just what I need, more projects.

Then there were these double wide dresden blades.  Apparently I started cutting them out of a charm pack. I also found those in this box. I dug around in the ruler drawer and found the ruler. Now the blades, ruler and charm pack are all together in a bag in the dresser. I have not added this to my UFO list.  I think this is destined to be an Orphan Block for now.

I also found some FQs and a few bits and pieces of loose fabric which I dealt with appropriately.  However, I still needed more neutrals for my Easy Breezy blocks.

I opened the next box and thought “Zuckerwatte”.  Zuckerwatte is a Bonnie Hunter quilt in her book String Fling. It’s the last picture on THIS PAGE.  I started digging. This box contained more than pink and purple scraps.  I found the cut of corners from two different quilts I saved.   I vaguely remember tossing them while making On Ringo Lake then seeing something which had me pulling them out of the trash.  I also had the trimmings from my  Eye Fooler.  I made the decision to toss them. I don’t need another project.  (They actually went in the scrap bag which I’ll take to a gal who makes dog beds for the shelter).

Another bag contained all sorts of fabric including parts of two unrelated charm packs  Those where pressed and put with the charm squares. This bag had the neutrals I was looking  for.  I have all of them cut, but have not started on cutting the squares.  I finished pulling everything which wasn’t scrap out of this box and closed it for another day.  I could get lost in a rabbit hole for days and I have a challenge to complete!

 

I stitched away on the binding and I am 5″ from the 2nd corner.  I probably pushed myself to hard, but I really want to finish it by Monday.  So, I’ve come up with a plan.  I’ll only stitch 40″ each night.  That should let me finish up Sunday, giving me time to wash it and photograph it on Monday. Who knows, this might even allow me to finish the rest of the items on my challenge list.

 

Posted in: scraps, wonky dishes

Cleaning aka Distracted

January 18, 2017 9:32 pm ⋅

I estimate that I have another 8 hours to go before I complete my En Provence quilt top. The pattern is still available HERE through the end of the month.

Block13

Block #13 is sewn into rows, waiting to be finished. But I haven’t turned my sewing machine on today. Instead of I’ve been cleaning.

Back at the end of the year, Task One of the final count down was to get your stash under control. Task Two was tackle the flat surfaces. For me these two tasks are basically the same thing.  Invariably there are piles of fabric laying around at the point I finish a quilt top — or get it to a stopping point. My Allietare and En Provence fabrics were stacked here and there, not that either top is finished, but both are to the point where I know what fabric will be needed to complete them. So, I allowed myself to get distracted.

foldedbox

I’ve been folding fabric. This is supposed to be the ‘floral’ box, but given the red & green box is stuffed, I’ve hijacked the box temporarily. I’ve also hijacked the black and white & red and white box, moving that fabric into this box. Which has made room for the larger pieces of fabric.

foldedlarger

 

I can’t say that all of the loose fabric is folded – I forgot about this box of fabric and the pile under the lid, but I have cleared the shelves of loose fabric – except for the binding fabric for the Disappearing 9-Patch.

shoebox

Now I have a pile of fabric which needs to be cut up into strips, bricks and squares.

scraps2cut

But I think  I want to consider what exactly I made be making next.  Why yes, I’m thinking about a new quilt. I’m considering using these 4-patches as the starter.

4-patches

I don’t really have enough to do anything — yet. 43 3-inch black and white 4-patches and 32 red and white 4-patches.  I have red fabric that needs to be cut into strips on the ironing board, there is white fabric on top of the shoe box and in the box is some black fabric.  Now, to figure out a quilt design.

Or I can spend my next 8 hours quilting and finish the En Provence quilt top so I can get to quilting the Disappearing 9-patch.

 

Posted in: scraps