A Use For Those Samples

 I did get busy and cut those samples up into 8.5" squares and made Scrappy Mountain Majesty blocks.

These really aren't my cup of tea, but they will make a nice quilt.

It will be mainly green and brown, with a bit of rusty orange here and there. I'm not using anything floral or girly, hoping it will appeal to someone wanting a quilt for a guy. My son was very anti-floral when it came to his quilt😄

When it comes time to trim the pieced triangles into 2" strips I use two rulers to make sure that I'm able to get 4 equal strips. Often I make the initial cuts just a tad too wide, and when I get to the last one it's not 2" at all.  So I only make the cut when I can see I'm trimming off 2", and there is enough left for more 2" strips.  I can't tell you how long it took me to figure that out. Sigh.

When I'm in the workroom I've been working on these long neglected Triple Treat blocks.  I started them last winter, and they've been languishing ever since, for a silly reason.  When I made those little 4patches I didn't square them up, or take any care to make them accurate, so the blocks don't fit together as nicely as I would like. Just deal with it, I told myself. It's too late to go back and fix them all, and I'm having to mash them together any way I can.  That is not how I like to work, so I'm finishing them with a very bad grace.  Some of the 4patches are 20 years old, before I had decent glasses, or a decent quarter inch seam allowance. Yes I'm using them up, but they're making me miserable. I need to be done with them and move on.

Luckily I have lovely little flowers to sweeten my mood, and I won't make any more slapdash units just to use them up. It's not worth it.