I have been continuing to turn my bag of gifted scrap paired triangles into HSTs and then into Pinwheels. Quite a time consuming task but I am doing bits at a time.
I have now sewn all the paired triangles into HSTs and they are all trimmed to 1.75". Most of those have been turned into Pinwheel blocks, with about 8 more left to sew into Pinwheels. Some of the finished Pinwheels have also been trimmed to a scant 3" block.
This is what they are looking like:
The top row are waiting to be sewn, the middle row need trimming (not 4 Pinwheels there, but 4 PILES of Pinwheels!) and the bottom row ARE trimmed!
As I was congratulating myself on being so productive with the bag of gifted scraps I suddenly remembered a previous bag of paired triangle scraps the same lady had given me several months ago. At the time I had lots of projects on the go and decided to put the bag away in a drawer. And then forgot about it!
So, a couple of days ago I looked it out and was a bit non-plussed to find this bag 2 or 3 times the size of the previous one! Oh my goodness!
Here it is!
The triangle pairs are literally stuffed into the bag! 100s of them!
For the past hour I have sewn paired triangles together and am now off to press them. Then I will put all the piles into plastic bags until next week. Of course I have barely put a dint into the stack of scraps in the bag.
However we have our granddaughter for the weekend, so no sewing can be done then.
I have also finished hand blanket stitching the I Spy bubbles to my Freckles Quilt. That's now ready to be sandwiched.
And I have done a lot of hand quilting on my Rainbow Beeline Quilt. It's looking great, the rainbow bands of colour being embellished with a row of largish Perle cotton stitches.
So a lot accomplished on the sewing front this week. Hurrah!
I find it quite hard to do repeated blocks unrelentingly so you are doing well! What are you going to do with the quilt you have at the end? Or have you not thought that far ahead? Thanks for linking up!
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm not keen on doing lots of repeats. So I mixed it up a bit: lots of HSTs created by sewing the triangles together as Leaders/Enders whilst I created some of the pinwheel blocks. I trimmed the HSts and pinwheels in little groups, whilst I was cooking, waiting for pans to boil etc. I have a few ideas for using the blocks in quilts and think I'll turn some of the HSts into broken dishes blocks for variety. The finished quilt top will then be handed back to Wendy, our Project Linus contact, as she gave me the scraps anyway.
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