Just a quick post...mostly to get rid of the picture of the lady with the zippered mouth. I've heard from some of you saying she was a little creepy.
I've been holding on to my new Stars and Sprigs pattern for months now while finishing other projects. That has the appearance of being disciplined, but really I've been having a hard time deciding how to proceed with this pattern. I've been trying to decide between brights and reproduction fabrics.
I FINALLY decided to experiment with some brights, maybe because it is spring and all the lovely flowers and new tree leaves have been influencing me.
I've cut out and glue stick prepped about 10 blocks worth of applique. Each pattern and the prepped pieces are in a separate sheet pocket protector until I can get to them. After glue basting the shapes from one of the blocks to the background, I'm thinking I need to make some of the more leaf looking pieces other colors than bright greens. There are so many leaves in the whole project that I need to loosen up and stretch my definition of leaf color, or the quilt is going to read too green.
I've had to put this project on hold while I deal with my scraps...they are taking over the quilt cave! The containers I sort scraps into are near to bursting, which means the piles of unsorted scraps have been growing because there is no place to sort and store them. I've been looking for a block that I misplaced and I keep bumping into scrap piles! It is insane!
I have to stop and feed some of the scrap quilt projects I want to do to clean this clutter up! This involves pressing each scrap and then processing it into strips, squares, rectangles, and strings. I've been needing to do this for several months, but I didn't want to stop the applique and quilting projects I was working on to do it.
Once I've done this, I'll have oodles of space to sort and store NEW scraps. And I will have endless leaders and enders ready to go while sewing on other projects. All these scrap quilts are long term projects...but I will soon have quite a few processed bits to chain piece together.
As I process the scraps, I save the tiny bits for small applique shapes and crumb quilting. I sort those into 4 bins...WARM (red, yellow, orange, pink), COOL (blue, green, purple), BROWN/BLACK and NEUTRAL.
Next post I will show the 8-9 scrap projects I am currently feeding...and maybe by then I will find the missing block that prompted all this stash maintenance.
In stitches,
Teresa :o)
