August 24, 2012

Leftovers

I have been piecing some leftover half square triangles, and digging through the drawer under the ironing table labeled "Orphans".

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).

I think I'll sash these cute ABC machine embroidery blocks and make a donation quilt. I don't even remember how I came to have these.


Quilt of Valor
 I think there are 110 red/white/blue half square triangles. Remembering how I incorrectly cut them for this Quilt of Valor and had to redo them. I have strip sets leftover too.

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. 





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4 comments:

  1. Linda in TXAugust 24, 2012 at 11:40 AM

    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.

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  2. Shelley: the Dread Pirate RodgersAugust 24, 2012 at 11:44 AM

    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! :-)

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  3. Barb and SharonAugust 25, 2012 at 7:24 AM

    Angie- you could sew all the different pinwheels together and make a modern styled wall hanging or a crib quilt.
    Bar@Witsend

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  4. Shelley: the Dread Pirate RodgersAugust 25, 2012 at 10:47 AM

    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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