Welcome to Scrap Happy Day where we post about the scrappy projects we've worked on over the past month.
Be sure to check out what everyone else has done with their scraps this month - Kate, Eva, Sue, Lynda, Birthe, Turid, Tracy, Jan, Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys, Claire, Jean, Dawn, Gwen, Sunny, Kjerstin, SueL, Vera, Ann, Dawn2, Carol, Preeti, Viv, Karrin, Amo, Alissa, Tierney, and Hannah
Life gets a little crazy at times for all of us. For me that was the machine I always piece in needing to go in for an urgent "spa day" due to deciding it didn't want to feed the fabric through anymore (still sewed I just had to pull the fabric) and a cleaning. And at the same time the long awaited hernia surgery was schedule for the end of February.
I've never been one to just sit around and twiddle my thumbs, so as the surgery date approached I used the machine I do my quilting on to piece up a bunch of various strings that I had pulled several years ago when sorting through my stash. The strings filled gallon sized bags and were stuffed to the brim.
First up were the yellow strings. These are the strips of strings. Enough for 2 toddler quilt tops when added to focus fabrics (yet, to be pulled from the umpteen remnants or FQ's that I've got in the stash). Along with these I trimmed the pieces that were big enough for 2.5" or 3.5" squares into squares for 2 additional quilts. All of these likely will be donated.
Next up was the biggest bag of green strings, triangles, and odd shaped pieces. Two sizes of squares were trimmed down first (3.5" and 2.5"). Then i sorted the strings into groupings based on width and sewed lots of 'yardage' with them. Multiple quilt tops will be made with these.
The third bag of strings to be worked on was the pinks - from pale pink to bright fuschia. For these, I started with making random squares or sections approximately 6" "squarish" in size, give or take. I then bordered them with a remnant of fabric I'd bought years ago that had brightly colored stars on a black background. When that ran out I finished bordering the sections with a similar fabric that has larger stars. Blocks are trimmed to 9" unfinished (why, I don't know...but they are). Finally I finished off the pink strings by making a stack of string blocks to the same size. These will go into toddler quilts as well, and ultimately be donated somewhere.
Gratitudes:
1. Surgery went well, albeit not quite in the way that I had hoped (ended up old-fashioned incision vs robotic, laparoscopic). Thankfully recovery is going ok so far.
2. For friends who have helped out while I was in the hospital and now in these first few days after release.
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