My number one task for the weekend was to deal with the overflowing scrap containers on my cutting table.  I religiously keep all the leftovers and snippets and strips, and then don't store them sensibly.  I can't utilize them if they are a jumbled mess, so it was time to do some organizing.

There are so many layers, dating back several quilts, it's like an archaeological dig.  By the time I've excavated down to the bottom of each container I've revisited four or five projects.

1.5" strips and squares

It didn't feel very rewarding at the time, but I kept going. Only sheer determination kept me pressing and stacking, then cutting and stacking, until there weren't any more scraps to deal with.

3"strips and Square In Square parts

I should have felt even mild triumph, but my over-riding thought was 'I'm never going to do THAT again!'

Strips to send through the Go Cutter for triangles

It was a whole morning dedicated to a couple of boxes of bits that I had no immediate plans for.  In future I either deal with these little bits during a project, or I just donate them to someone who adores them (Mereth!!)

Totally random strip sizes

But look, there is my cutting table with not a thing to clutter it up.  I can start cutting for new projects any time I feel like it.

Of course that will be sooner rather than later, because another quilt from the Quilt Divas bok caught my attention.

All those 1.5" strips need to be cut up into something, so I worked out the dimensions of this block using that size strip. The blocks in the quilt shown are 4"and the pattern in the book makes a 5" one. Mine are 5.75" roughly, because I can't be cutting strange sizes for a hundred or more blocks.

Talk about cute overload!  I can't wait the make a heap more of these.