Scrappage

 What was in my little box of scraps? Little useable bits that no one else wanted, obviously.

But they will find a home and a use in my sewing room.  Except for the white on white scraps, I gifted them to Mereth.  Some are destined to be Terry Roland blocks, others will be logs in one of my log cabins.  

All ironed and ready to trim.  I'll cut larger scraps into squares and triangles, and it will add a bit of variety to my own scraps.

One fabric made me laugh. It's quite a few 1.5" strips; I have a little piece of this and wanted to use it in the Fancy 4-patch quilt but was doing my usual 'It's too precious' dance.  Lo and behold, the universe has gifted me with a little more, so I get to use it, and keep it.  Thanks Universe.

I would have liked to sew this morning, but I was good and went down to our shop and got a quilt loaded. We have lots of small tops to do for others, but this one was bigger and will require more quilting, so I wanted to get it underway.  I'm finding it hard to handle larger tops, with their larger battings and backings. So much walking involved in ironing and squaring up a 108" wideback.  But it's loaded and the quilting begun, so that's a big load off my mind.

In my sewing room I haven't had time to do much, but I made an effort to get my This And That project completely under control. People have asked for a pattern, and a name. 

I don't have any idea what this block is called, I put it together after making dozens of these units. 

I'm linking again to my old post that shows how to make them from 2.5" Squares and HSTs. They are simple and addictive, just two squares, one dark, one light, and 2 identical HSTs. If I haven't replied to your comment about this it's because you are no-reply and I have no way of contacting you.

Or put them together like this:

I'm sure that has a name but I'm too tired to go look it up. It's like King's Crown but the centre is pieced instead of one big square.