Another Scrappy FLimsy

Here's another all scrap quilt.  The blue is from a quilt I made for a wedding present.  The nine patch is 2 1/2 inch squares.  A lot of the scraps are from friends who don't work with small pieces. 

I love this type of mindless sewing.  This makes nine flimsies on a hanger to iron and sandwhich.  This is a small quilt for a newborn.  I always make large baby quilts, but my daughter mentioned when the baby was newborn, she would have used a smaller quilt more oftern.  So I am making a few smaller ones.  I love making them, as they are a lot faster.

These nine patches are from when I was doing a block a day,  I do love whipping out a tip with all the pieces sitting in a box.

This quilt is already sandwhiched.  I will try to quilt it tomorrow on my day off.

Scrappy Baby Boy quilt

I am trying to finish several baby quilts to have on hand when there is a cute baby to give one to.  Before I went back to work I always had 5 or 6 baby quilts ready at all times.  I would like to build up another stash.  For this one, I did something I always wanted to, I used pieces to make a a main block.  This one is really a free quilt.  All the blocks are leftover from other quilts.

These nine patches were made when I was doing one block a day.  I need to get back to sewing at least one block a day, I really want to spend more time sewing.

Duck tape

It's actually duct tape, the brand is Duck Tape.  I thought that was cute.  My hubby broke the corner off his lunch box.  He was quiet disappointed, because it is his favorite one.  My daughter found this bacon tape for me.  Isn't it funny.  So now its not waterproof, and but the little containers that fit in there will keep the food from touching the tape.  I have been wanting to try the cute tapes, so was quite excited that it worked well.

Well off to find binding for a quilt that I need to finish soon for a present.

Cutting, organizing

I am still trying to get organized.  I went through my scraps from recent trimming of blocks and quilts, and cut them all down in my system. 

I am doing 1 1/2 for Lego quilts, the rest was cut into center blocks for a baby quilt and strips for the baby quilt.  I am working on a crayon quilt using the  Bonnie Hunter pattern.  Love that one to use  up scraps.

I now have 8 flimsies ready for ironing and sandwhiching.  I no longer iron before I have up, because I always fell I should reiron the whole top.

Lego quilt

I am still working on sewing up my processed scraps.  I sew until I use all of that size scrap.  Then I put the piece in a basket to iron later.  I am very behind in my ironing.  Maybe one day I will feel like ironing, but not this week.  I really do like doing this quilt. 

I hope to get inspired to iron soon.  I have probably 15 scrap centers of quilts to iron, then see if I have scraps for borders.  I am trying to sew all the fabric I have before I buy any more.

Can you guess?

Can you guess which one of these sweethearts are keeping me from finishes?  Ahhh, so worth it.  Yes, this is how most pictures looks, can you tell he is teething.

Small finishes, pickled peppers

I had been wanting to make peppers for when we have guests over for salad.  These were on sale, so I picked up a bag.  I added garlic to the jar.  These have been a great hit with the guys.  They do taste different then banana peppers, so they are a nice suprise.  My daughters has a couple of jalapeno plants, we are hoping to be able to pickle some soon.  Actually, we are like vultures waiting for them to ripen.