To expand on my "parts department" post yesterday, this is a quilt I made in 2016. I had a lot of batik 2" finished triangles that I had previously cut from scraps. I made the star blocks as my mindless evening sewing for a few months. Then the blocks got placed on a shelf. One day I came across them and on the next shelf were leftover red 16 patch blocks from another quilt. As I moved them and placed one pile on top of the other, I saw that the both sets of blocks were the same size and this quilt was born. It is one of my favorites and has never been moved to the gifting pile.
I searched my flannel boxes and found 4 more light fabric for triangles.
After I cut the new triangles I paired the fabrics for sewing last night. I had enough light triangles to match all of the rest of the dark triangles that were cut last year.
I sewed 40 of them last night but will wait to take a picture of all of the remaining sewn squares. I think there will be around 85 of them.
More parts department finds: Last year I started sewing 2" strips together and the plan is blocks like the blue one. I only have enough prepared for 4 blocks but I put them in a project box with a note of what I'm doing. That is progress....adding the note.
In the same project box were stratas of batiks sewn but none cut for blocks. I think I was planning something different with these. Again, there aren't very many of them but I decided it was a good idea to keep them all together in a safe place.
The last box I opened was the Kaffe small scraps and some blocks. Here is a post that shows some of the blocks from last September. I'll definitely work on this one soon.
This is a long neglected wall hanging. It is taped to the table, ready for hand basting, to prepare for ditch quilting. It has been ready for a couple months and I finally did the first 3 lines of basting. I took this photo before I started the stitching. Maybe I'll finish it today.
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