Strips, lego quilt

I'm not much of a pinner, but I have had to pin these strips to keep them straight. This may be a cheap quilt top, it might use up all my little scraps, but it is not a quick, carefree project.

I put them ontop of the basket as I am sewing them to keep them nice and wrinkle free. After all that ironing, I don't want anything put on top of it.

Making progress processing scraps

Here's some of my kaladiscope parts. I finished enough blocks. So I am now processing them into 1 1/2 " strips. I have been sewing them into longer strips.

Here's a big pile of 1 1/2" stips. I love the great variety of colors.

One big basket cleaned out. It did feel good. I cleaned out the smaller basket of this set, and it holds my five cans of starch. This big one is now cleaned out. I am making quilt backs ahead of time out of large scraps. I think I will store them in this large basket.

Lego quilt

I have a system, I am cutting them out and putting them on this tray so I can pick my colors as I go. No, I can't do the grab a piece and sew it in regardless. I also have a lot of beiges from Sheri, and I want to mix them in, but still make a cheery babies quilt. Yeap, it will be a small one. I haven't set a deadline on finishing it. It will be kept for a family baby, so I don't have to hurry.

Does anyone have a favorite place to order batting online? I am trying to order online this year, and not make so many 30 minutes to town to buy $10's worth of supplies. I just hate paying postage, but I will try to get on board with the rest of the online buyers. Kevin loves online buying. I guess I will try. Sooooooooo, where should I buy from.

My tiniest scraps, legos & strips

I am very slowly working throught the 2 wicker baskets of tiny scraps this long weekend. I certainly don't plan on letting them stack up like this again. It takes a long time to go through a bushel of scraps. These are my smallest scraps

I cut my scraps down as soon as I determine they are scraps. Usually as soon as I pin a backing on an almost finished quilt, and have made the binding. I cut my pieces into tumblers, curves, 4 1/2, 3 1/2, and 2 1/2 as my smallest one. I do cut a bunch of 2 1/2 " strips, as I do use several different size strips for quilt blocks that I am working on.

This basket has what is too small to be cut into those. A lot of times I was throwing them away. But now I am working on a Lego quilt and a strip quilt. I am trying to be as frugal as possible these days. I'm wondering if I made a good choice. Althought this will be 2 completely free quilt tops, they do eat up a lot of time.

I certainly have a lot of catching up on. I went back to work full time, we did a lot of remodeling last year, and we worked on a wedding for 18 months. So I am wondering about my decision to make 2 very slow going quilts. But I will work on them a little longer. If I decide it is taking too long, potholders they will be. HA. Always a plan for sucess.

Little Cuties

Tiffany's friend gave me 7 of these little dolls to give to a friend of mine's 4 year old. I decided they needed a few accessories. I have a friend that goes to garage sells looking for a couple of beds and high chairs. I have been cutting out little blankets for them. I will make little cloth sleeping bags for them on my embroidery machine. I think in February would be good. They just had Christmas, so a present in a few weeks might be fun. I need to go through more scraps, and do a few more of these blankets. I put very little time in them, so when they get dirty, she can just throw them. I love making little girls accessories. Not real good at making boys toys.

Getting ready for projects

I spent quite a while ironing these. I use these when I need a stabilizer for my embroidery machine. I was going to throw most of these away, and just iron when I needed them. But, I knew that I would put off projects if I didn't have them all ready. I use them on a lot of my give away projects. I love free supplies. Don't you. What's the craziest free supply that you use in your sewing projects?


I have this small one and a big basket full of scraps and fabric softner sheets. I am trying to empty them out by tomorrow night. I have a 3 day weekend, so I am working on a few fun things while I clean and straighten my house.

Gnome & Barbie meet

I just made the skits a little longer, and poof. It's a dress. I decided not to put on ribbon for the neck tie. Most of these are going to a 4 year old, and I think that might not be good for her to work with. A lot of these girlie fabrics were given to me by quilting friends. It was a trip down memory lane to work with them.

I love my little gnome. I have wanted one for years to put in pics with us. Dani got me this cutie for Christmas. He did a good job holding up our Barbie. There is still chocolate on him from when he joined up for Christmas making Chocolate covered apples. We had fun doing them, and I can't believe it, we forgot to take pics of them finished.