This hospital quilt is done. I did the circles one each morning and one each night to stave off the dizziness.
Now, I am finished with free motion quilting for awhile to get my bearings back. Had to finish this up with the walking foot.
Now the quandary!!! What is a scrap and what is a project begging to be started?? How big is a scrap that is to be kept?? What to do about all this mess with 2 inch squares and orphan patches. One side of the table is clean...how many possible quilts are there here, on this side of the table???
I am totally overwhelmed. But if I start with new projects for each orphan or snippet possibility, I will never touch my awesome stash...
Or is this the size a scrap should be???? I have half a mind to just cut pieces like this into strips for strip quilts... Just typing this drives me batty.
3 comments:
i have a similar dilemma. i however have mine in bins.....sorted-sort-of. i think when it gets to me, i'm just going to take the orphans and sew strips around them (log cabin-ish style) to make them all, say 12" squares, and then build a quilt top from the 12" squares.
does that make sense?
i too wonder where the defining factor is between a scrap or a small piece of fabric. hahahahha i suppose it matters how frugal each of us is?????
xo
all the best, Happy New Year!!!!
eva
I feel your pain!! I have started sorting some things into a box of 2 1/2 inch squares to use for Granny square blocks. I am addicted to the durn things. Easy and sweet to sew when I don't have time to work on a big project
I save embarassingly small scraps. I found a huge egg basket thing (at the GW!) and I still have some room before it's full! Then, I need to do something with it- I guess! Pieces big enough to be folded are just crammed in the stash! :)
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