A Bit of a Clean Up

I felt the need to clean up the cutting table & surrounding surfaces. I have been leader/ender-ing scrap/crumb blocks as well as HST’s and still have a huge pile to trim. 

The trimmed blocks are either put in their respective scrap draws for pinning the next round or added to my growing piles of finished 6 1/2” blocks (note to self….decide on the next project from them!). 

The blocks, L to R, multi colored, neutrals, single color and single color with a neutral center. I pin, sew, iron & trim these when I want to just go with the flow……good for my peace of mind.

The HST phase started with cut off triangles from two friends (thanks Lisa & Jan!) and now I’m enjoying sewing from the boxes of triangles I’ve saved for years.

The 4 1/2” pink HST’s are for the king sized friendship star quilt I’m making and that is the last of them 😁. 

The 2 1/2” HST’s are growing (almost all of the above are from the recently gifted triangles) and I’m hoping to have enough to keep me busy at retreat in July…..assuming I have settled on a design for them 🤔.

As for the graduation quilt…….

I wanted to get it quilted so I could hand sew the binding on our getaway trip this weekend. I have some variegated turquoise thread I thought would work for it, however, I wasn’t happy with how light parts of the thread looked on the black fabric 🙁. New thread is to arrive Monday……

Cheers, Cherie