Instead Of Doing What Needs to be Done

I ended up doing some mindless sewing. . . 

just sewing bits together . . . 

. . . and something new got started. Sigh! 

I'm ashamed to say that I am not as well organized as Terry is (check her post about string piecing here) but I'm trying to empty this big bag of bits.

This bag is my catch-all. These bits aren't big enough to go in the strings box. They are the too-tired-to-cut-them-into-a-useable-size square, and the don't-want-to-throw-it-out bits. As you can see, it's pretty full. 

Not everything in there is a linear bit; many are odd shapes and cutoffs from blocks. So, some of these bits get a different treatment. 

I was able to get a little 2" HST out of the green piece before adding it to another "string" bit. 

The width needed is 3.5". 

And this process happened again and again . . . 

It's always handy to have spare parts already made, right? 

I keep adding strings until I have a long and narrow rectangle. 

The pink bits on the left are the cutoffs from Stained Glass block. Didn't even bother to unstitch these, and yep, everything goes in that bag. 

Then, I added the blues. 

This is my newest project. I'm supposed to be sewing flannelette for the backings for the baby quilt drive but I just needed a break from everything and this happened. They are fun and require not much brain juice which is perfect because my juice is running low lately, lol. 

Anywho! This is another of Cathy's inspiration. She finished a top called *Busy Quilt* (very lovely) and she added a link. Of course, I had to click on the link. Why?! If there's a rabbit hole in front of me, you think I'll think twice before jumping in? You don't know me very well, do you? LOLLL ! 

The first Rabbit Hole : tilkkunen.com/products/busy-quilt-pattern

and I clicked on and on to see more rabbit holes pages and this one opened up 

tilkkunen.com/products/scilla-quilt-pattern?

and there you have it! My new project. I'm calling mine *Inside My Blue*. When I get the blues, that's what's going through my head, lol. 

Only a few blocks are made so far. More will be made with a variety of blue backgrounds. This is not the final layout but it pleases me so far. 

Friends' Favourite is still not straight on the frame. So I thought of buying some tailor's pins or T-pins because they are flat tops and not bulky. So, early this morning, I went to Fabricland Store to buy the needles and the much needed tailor's pins. 

I got home with this. I don't recall having fabric on my shopping list so I don't understand what happened . . .  but they sure are pretty. Lol. (There was a $5/meter sale!! Just my luck. Haven't been in that store for a year or two and the day I walk in, they decide to have a sale just for me.) 😁

And the comments are still MIA in my inbox. Sigh! 😒 Thank you all for your suggestions.

OMG! I just found your comments!! They are in my junk box!! I've rescued them out of there and hopefully your next comments will be saved in the right box. WhooHoo! I'm so happy! 😍

Hope you are well and find time to sew. I need to take care of my garden in containers this weekend. We had SO much rain this week that everything is over-watered. 

Enjoy! 

;^)

As always, I'll try to catch these talented ladies' link-party. See you there. 

Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Alycia for Finished or Not Friday

Cynthia for Oh Scrap!

It's a Top!

Another week has gone by and look what I did. I'm SO happy!!

Friends' Favourite was missing a border (?), sashing part (?), whatever, it was missing a few little bits of scraps. As I sew the quadrants together, these little bits were added. And then . . . 

TA-DAH! 

I couldn't take a picture outside as it was raining here last week. This morning, before I thought of taking more photos of it, I started (and finished) setting it up on the quilting frame. It is way too big for my little domestic machine so it will get the hand quilting treatment. Lucky one! 

It's 100 X 100 inches and it was quite a workout to get it all straight (not even sure about that) and on the frame. 

Luckily I found some yardage in my stash. Yards and yards of this rainbow dot print was given to me a long time ago. At the time, I thought I could get 2 or 3 backings out of it but nope. It mostly all went in this one. 

Notice anything peculiar in this photo? Nothing is the right answer. There's nothing at all in the selvage. No company name, no designer name, not even "100% cotton", etc. just the colours and they aren't even aligned properly. Ever seen this before? 

I'm happy to be using it because there's a big empty space on the shelf now. 😁

While putting away all the fabric needed to make a scrap quilt like Friends' Favourite, I found these bits. 

It's a dizzying print in person. They weren't cut in any size I could used, so I trimmed them all down to 2.5" squares. They were joined to dark green scraps and grew into this. 

I found the same print in brown and chopped it too and used dark brown this time. It's easier in the brown colourway to see how dizzying this print really is. 

I have to admit that the polka-dot one is not my favourite. It might go to OR this weekend to have a "face lift", lol. I have no idea yet where these blocks are heading. Time will tell. 

Reply to comments from previous post: 

Thank you all for your lovely comments. 

Nann suggested to continue sewing the pastel blues together then applique colourful flowers. I SO love this idea, Nann that I will get on it this weekend. I'm thinking a nice little placemat for lovely self. Thank you for the inspiration, Nann. 

Cathy wrote about my issues with comments not coming to my email: 

As far as comment notifications to email...I go into the blogger settings and under the EMAIL heading there is a "comment notification subscribers" section. In the box under there enter the email where you want to receive the notification. That's what works for me. - that way I am a subscriber to comment notifications! Also, I don't know if it makes a difference but I don't moderate comments.

Well, paint me yellow and call me shameful!  I have to be a subscriber to MY OWN blog now? Everything is by subscriptions or with cookies now a days. Sigh!  Anywho! I went straight to the settings and subscribed to my own blog. Fingers crossed (again) that it works.  

Cathy also said that some of those pastel blues look like TriRec Ruler cuttings. 

You are right and I'm thinking of just adding the missing triangle in the middle. They could be use as a border for something, right? They are now in the spare-parts box. 😊

That's all I have for this week, friends. Hope you stay cool (this week, we almost hit 40 Celsius because of the humidity and it's only June!!) hydrated, and able to sew. 

Take care. 

;^)

As always, I'll try to catch these talented ladies' link-party. See you there. 

Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Alycia for Finished or Not Friday

Cynthia for Oh Scrap!

What's in the Bag?

Angela announced June as Pastel month. I don't do pastel much. Whatever I have is stashed away with its own colour. (The blue with the blue.) Then, I found this bag given to me a while back (probably longer than I remember) with metal blue, icy blue, grey, etc.

So, I opened it. 

This is what came out. I'm not very good with Y seams and all these pieces are triangles and angular trapezoid shapes. I'm stuck. 

It would be easy to use this piece in a crazy quilt or in a pieced backing but 

what about this one? 😦

Maybe if I add more pieces to shape it into a rectangle it could be used in the same backing as the first one. 😶 ?? There are lots of pieces left. 

These are in pairs. They can be easily sewn into blocks. . . 

or together, into rectangles. 

Decluttering continues! The centres for Friends' Favourite last rows weren't framed in white. Last weekend I worked on that and then put all the white leftovers away. 

Oh look! a clean place. Wow! 

All the blocks are done and assembled into quadrants formation. This weekend, I shall get this space behind the sewing machine cleared so I can sew the long rows of Friends' Favourite without pushing everything off the desk. 

It will be nice to have this one turned into a complete top. 

Good news: next week, at work, I am going back to my regular hours of 8:30 to 4:30. It will be nice to have a regular schedule again. And some energy left for some sewing in the evenings. 😀

On the other hand, your comments are not good news. I still don't receive them in my email inbox even with Joy's help. Here's what I'm thinking: I'm in Canada and Joy is in the States. We all know that Google (producer of Blogger) is International but each country has it's own Google Motherboard (lol). Even more, I believe that Canada and the States have more than one each. I'm pretty sure Joy and I don't have updates at the same time nor for the same issues/reasons, nor are the updates coming from the same main office. I'm sure what she has suggested works for some of you. Lucky you. Just not for me. So, I shall continue to reply to you here. 

There were many comments about the new blocks. Thank you. 

- Frédérique asked if the newest block is made with a partial seam. Yes, it is. The long rectangles are sew to the little yellow square in the middle, starting with a partial seam. 

Do you know what I'm thinking now? Only 11 more blocks to do for a baby quilt for my quilt drive. Lol. 

There were also comments about my garden in containers. So far so good. It's still growing and green, not brown like dead weeds, lol. We have rain today that will continue for the next few days. I shall bring my garden indoor so it doesn't drown. Gardening is so much work! 😁

As always, I'll try to catch these talented ladies' link-party. See you there. 

Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Alycia for Finished or Not Friday

Cynthia for Oh Scrap!