Lots of Sewing

 I've been snowed under with appointments and commitments and chores, and I've been spending every free moment glued to my sewing machine or rotary cutter, trying to make up for the lost time. Every now and then I think, I should take some photos for the blog, but I get distracted and it doesn't happen. So what have I been sewing?

Before the sewing there was the cutting, and a lot of remnants and scraps were sliced into strips,.  That doesn't sound like much, but it was quite a stack. I also cut up a pile of sales samples of fabrics that have been languishing in drawers, forgotten. Nearly all of them were modern, guy type patterns, not what I would choose, so it was no hardship to piece them into a lot of Square Within Square blocks and use up every bit.  

The blocks aren't finished yet, but I only need a few dark ones and then I can start putting those blocks into a top.

I made even more Square Within Square blocks from the 2.5" strips, 50 in fact, and there are more waiting to be assembled. 

They are easy to cut and easy to sew, very therapeutic to do at night when I want to make sure the day doesn't end without some sort of achievement. I stayed up past midnight several nights, and I try not to do that because it makes me too tired the next day, but I couldn't resist the lure of 'just one more block'.

I have still more of those samples. 

Most of them are bigger than a Layer Cake square, so there's a lot of fabric here. 

Maybe I'll make Scrappy Mountain Majesties blocks from them, for a masculine top. 

Sad to say, my sewing room is a bit trashed with fabric strips everywhere. so I think tomorrow will have to be dedicated to cleaning up. I don't know what I will work on next, but I'm really drawn to those patterns that promise a quilt from 12. or 16, or 20 FQs.  

Stack of 12 on the left, 16 on the right. That would clear about 7" from my FQ drawers. It's very tempting. I need to see some room in the modern FQ drawers, and I imagine pulling out a stack all at once would feel pretty good. I'll have to do some research on that.