Strip Pieced Top

This top went together really quickly; it was satisfying that there was no drama piecing the blocks together. They were all pretty much exactly the same size.

That makes 17 tops finished this year. My lack of social interaction has meant lots of completion in the sewing room.

I went through the project boxes to see what else I might work on. I started this star quilt last November, and have hardly touched it since. I'd packed away everything these blocks needed, so it wasn't difficult to pick it up again.

A couple of sewing sessions saw 14 blocks completed, and I really enjoyed them, so I will continue working on them. I'll have to work out what size quilt I can make with the limited background fabric I have. It's from Connecting Threads, and I could order more, but I'm trying not to look at that site. It usually turns out to be expensive.

There are some very strange fabrics involved, and often this is the first time they've been used, so it's good to see them out of the stash at last.

While I'm sewing blocks I'm also making Split 9Patches; they aren't strictly leader-enders because I have several bursts of making 10 or so at a time, so now I have finished 3/4 of the top. 

I'm such a failure at leader-enders. I'm also a failure at using up what I've already got. That box of squares has scarcely been touched, because I want to choose the colours I use. I really think that I'll have to send them back to the op-shop.