Situation Report

 I seem to have abandoned all sense of order in my sewing room, and I'm just doing whatever I want to. I know there's nothing wrong with that, and I'm having fun, but I really would like to see something finished. Then I'll go back to my 6 different projects.

I've been working my way through the bright strips from the last post, and I almost have the Log Cabin blocks in one piece, just that centre seam to go.  

Its too narrow, so I have to come up with a way to make it wider, but not longer.  I'm still pondering that, while I go on with these blocks.

They are my leader-enders, and I'm just using whatever 2" scraps I have.  So far I've been able to cut the blocks only out of 2 fabrics, but I have an awful lot of scraps that are too small for that.  Either I cut from my longer strips now, or I make them totally scrappy.  Not sure I would like that, it would be a bit chaotic, but I might give it a try. Or I could make a piano key border. Still thinking about that one.

The blocks I'm really smitten with are these Granny square blocks.

I know everyone in blogland made one of these years ago, but I just set the idea aside in the One Day file. My strips are perfect for this, and I'm also using up a pile of random white strips left over from projects.  Those scraps of white are infuriating, they're just clutter because if I want to use white in a good quilt, I want it all the same fabric.  It's not until you try and put whites together that you realize how different they can be, so these scraps just keep getting passed over. I think I'm going to sash these blocks with a very pale print, so the whites are separated and the differences are less noticeable.

I'm also working on a variety of projects using my reproduction fabrics, which couldn't be more different from the modern prints.  The browns and pinks make me so happy, even though some people find them gloomy. 

I'm working on sewing these strips of leftovers together, and then adding the pink strips; it's all very slapdash.  When I get them all in one piece I'll just chop off anything that isn't square.  It's not going to be terribly big because I"m making it for my bed, which has a rail at the foot, so the quilt doesn't have to overhang the mattress.  It's going to be 66" long, and a lot wider.  I just wonder it it will use up all the scrap strips entirely, or if I'll have to think of something else to do with what remains. There are so many scraps...

And I'm still cutting up scraps into these Chain blocks, which are like potato chips in that you can't just do one. They are so easy to put together, there is a stack of finished blocks in no time.

Today I'm going to update my Ongoing Projects spreadsheet, because none of these have been entered.  The numbers will go up dramatically; I've been at 26 projects for a long time but these will take me way over 30.  I'll just have to get busy and finish them, so I can put them into the Finished Tops spreadsheet.  It's a pity I'm not tracking yardage this year, there's a lot of fabric involved.