Bargain Hunting

 I'm tired, yet again. I just can't seem to avoid all the going out, when all I really want to do is stay at home and sew. Blood tests, shopping in the next town, getting a tire fixed, picking up prescriptions: nothing is hard, just time consuming. And in the garden, I've been dealing with an onslaught of mealy bugs like a Biblical plague. How dare they attack my plants!. 

But I don't complain, remember? No whining.

This afternoon, while I waited for my washing to finish, I started ironing and cutting an enormous pile of scraps. They were on every surface, because we'd dragged them out of their hiding places, and I couldn't really function until I made some space.

This was a quarter of them, there were many, many more.

That was a lot of cutting.

 I needed space because a parcel arrived from Accuquilt and I wanted to unpack it straight away. They had a huge sale on discontinued dies, and initially I didn't want any, but then I started looking at the individual shapes on each die and they started to look more useful, Most of them were sold out by the time I decided to jump in, but I got three, and they should prove interesting.

I love that Weathervane shape, so I'm sure I'll use this, it's for an 8" block, which is a favourite size of mine.

This Star block eliminates a lot of tedious cutting, and I do love Star quilts. It ends up at 14".

This 12" Snail Trail block is a huge die, and again, I'm not interested in piecing the block as is, I'm more interested in how I can use those shapes in my own blocks.

These 3 dies plus shipping cost less than a single full price die, so it was a good bargain. Most of the prices have gone back to normal now, so I'm glad I jumped in while I could.

I'm off to Adelaide again for a week, so I don't have time to play. I grabbed a handful of batik strips and ran them through the Star die, and stayed up way too late creating half a star.

I'll finish it when I get home, but it all went together really well, and I can't wait to cut more.