I'm still having fun looking for UFOs so I haven't sewn anything for several days. The first few days of a new month are usually pretty low key for me.
The Farm Girl Vintage quilt was started in October 2015 and I think the last time I worked on it was in December of 2019. This post was probably the last time I put the blocks up on the design wall and I made a few more after that, more little chicks and a sewing machine.
When I started making it I thought I would have plenty of the background fabric but now I'm not sure I do. The white background matches Kona Snow pretty well so there may be a few blocks with it in them. There are lots of different size blocks so there will be filler blocks to make it all fit together. I think this is the year to finish this one.
When I took my empty spools to the basement to put them in the BIG bag, I thought maybe you would like to see how many spools I've emptied since mid-2002. I went to a workshop in June 2002 and when I was talking to another student, we were talking about empty spools. I was telling her I had a lot of them and she said her little girls would love to have them to play with. I sent her all I had and this is the collection since then. I was told this plastic wasn't one of the kinds that they recycle so they live in this bag.
I have these batik strip pieced groups with little bulldog clips holding all of the ones the same width together. Back in this post from close to 10 years ago, I was trimming them to widest width each had available.
I had these 3 crazy pieced blocks in the same drawer with the strips and I know I want to work them into whatever I make. I also want to use some plain batik strips in the project. My problem here is this will be a project that takes quite a while on the design wall which means I can't put anything else up there for a length of time. In the winter with shorter daylight I work more in my main floor studio and less time in the basement where the rest of the design walls are.
Since I'm doing these posts with UFOs all in one week, I will have an easy time going back to review the projects and decide which one I'll work on next. I didn't get the batting cut yesterday so I want to get that done today.
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Oh wow, look at all the spools! I was able to give mine to a teacher who used them for building projects in her gifted student classes but, since then, I haven’t found a home for them. Mine are in a plastic bag as well, although much smaller than yours! It will be fun to see what you make with the batik pieces this spring/summer.
Love those batik strips all together, Wanda;0)) You have a lovely variety of them :))))
20 here this morning with the sun shining; but this afternoon the predicters say "Snow" again. We've had mor snow this year than in the past five years and it's been cold enough to keep it from melting!!
Hugs, Julierose
Oh my - those batik strips are fabulous! I am really enjoying this parade of UFOs - SO many possibilities waiting in the wings.
Oh.My.Goodness! Look at that bag of empty spools! I know you are a prolific quilter, but this is impressive.
Those farm blocks are so cute! They definitely need to be made into a quilt. I think I will text my neighbor and see if she would be interested in taking my spools to school. If she can't use them in her class, maybe someone else can. That is sure a big bag of spools! It is a shame that they are not recyclable. The 500 yard King Tut spools are substantial and it's a shame to just send them to the landfill.
You have a grand array of UFO’s to select from… its exciting to see even more today…wondering which one you will select to finish. I love your Farm Girl Vintage… brings back so many memories.
What a huge collection of spools you have. . . . Maybe some Lego creator would come up with some thing.
looks like you have a lot of the Vintage Farm Girl Blocks I'm sure you will finish them one day, I never saved my spools I might this year to see what I have. I'm afraid we don't have a recycling program in my area and I always toss them.
What delightful additional blocks you've found that go together. If I had some of the background fabric for your Vintage Farm Girl blocks, I'd send it to you but it doesn't look familiar.
Might you use a few of those spools, once well washed, to roll over dough to make patterns in the dough before baking? Kids could use them with Play Dough, too.
Enjoy this time of exploring your fabric leftovers!
Hugs!
Wow - that is a huge bag of used thread spools! Very cool that you saved them and that they are now going to a great use!
There is a shop in Ohio, on Etsy that I am familiar with and they recycle spools into little pots and buttons and such.
Tansy Recycling is the name
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