It has been ages since I last posted. The summer has sped by like no ones business. The weather has been absolutely gorgeous and should continue to be mid 20's for at least another week so spending the day in the basement is not the way to go.
I have not done the machine quilting that I had hoped to do but I have not wasted the summer. Charlie and I have gone on a lot of good walks and I have played in my flower garden more than I have in the past years. I have enjoyed that.
One of my missions for the summer was to use up the leftover fabric scraps from last winter's 'Thelma Wynn' project. I have been going great guns this past week and I have managed to cut up scraps for two scrappy baby quilts and organized the pieces into something fairly nice. I also was playing with some navy and yellow bricks to make something that looked nice and also used up all of the fabric and I finally came up with something. I am not using the yellow because it just screamed ugly at me. I managed to cut enough bricks for two smaller sized tops and I will see if they need a border once they are pieced. I took a trip to Fabricland to see if there was anything there to go with the yellow flannel but there was nothing. I think a trip to Berry St. is in order but I am in no hurry as these quilts don't need to be done until the spring. I hope to use up most of the scraps by that time.
I bought some small colourful plastic bins to organize all of the scraps and hope to do that tomorrow afternoon while everyone is snoozing. I hate having a mess to wade through every time I want to work on those baby projects. I want to make baby bibs with all of the scraps that I cannot use in the quilts. I saw some samples in Pinterest and thought that would be a great idea to use up some of the pieces.
Pictures of the tops next post.
Happy quilting.
