It truly is a miss-mosh of squares, half square pieces, tumbler pieces, embroidery blocks, some string blocks, some paper pieced diamond.
I sorted and stacked and bagged all the smaller scraps. But, now what? I know what to do with leftover food! (gobble-gobble!)---but, I think these leftovers are getting moldy!
The Orphan block drawer.
Leftover 8" batik tumbler block pieces. Maybe I'll have enough for a lap quilt.
Leftover from this quilt (below).
Quilt of Valor
Oh and I have these baggies of of assorted pinwheels of various sizes.
Some paper pieced diamonds leftover from this.
Here are more orphan blocks I didn't remove from the drawer for pictures. Just waiting. Some are already sewn, and some are cut half square triangles to sew together. I wonder what I will ever do with all this stuff? or worse yet, why I can't just get rid of it. Sort of like the refrigerator/freezer ? You keep thinking you will use that little dab of mashed potatoes, or whatever. Instead it has to get moldy before you can dump it.
4 comments:
It's not your fault Angie. I know that my left-over blocks replicate themselves at night while I'm sleeping. I use them for Project Linus NICU quilts - the neonatal units love them to cover the isolettes (makes it look more normal in the NICU). I make mine 28" square up to 36" by whatever. They're little and fun to make and great to practice new free motion designs on. And the new parents treasure them.
I have the same sort of leftovers. Especially paired triangles which are the bonus trims from snowballing a corner.
I have bags of them. I have the bags because I *could* do something with them. It would certainly be a crime to just toss them.
But I have *so many* other things to sew that working on those bags of leftovers and orphan blocks never seems to occur.
I've given a (small) thought to trying to sell the bags of stuff on various sewing-related websites. Or giving them away to other quilty friends to make more donations quilts than I do.
But I haven't quite done either one yet because .... I *could* do something with them! :-)
Angie- you could sew all the different pinwheels together and make a modern styled wall hanging or a crib quilt.
Bar@Witsend
One rationale (which is my current one) is that you NEED those little leftovers because ... what if that quilt became ripped or torn? Or needed a repair?
How ELSE would you do a quality repair if you didn't have the *original* fabric saved? :-)
(Is that enabling or encouraging? ::grin::)
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