Wow so many scraps! They look warm and cheerful all together. Love the house quilt, was it all that talk of house blocks a couple of months ago that got you started?

Off to look up Bonnie Hunter and listen to spools

Rita...Bonnie would be proud !! Those scraps are just beautiful !! I have crumbs on paper in the
works as well as strings ! Just nothing I can show ..yet !! Love throwin' those emptys , too....I use one of my older
machines and thread up all that old dressmaker cotton ...odd colors top and bottom .I love it and I would like to
start a spiderweb like she was working on last nite on Quilt Cam !! Brainless sewing and I love it !

If you don't know Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville fame.....google her up !! It's super !

Yep Lois, you know what I am talking about. I even emptied the bin before I began so that I could hear the resounding clatter as those spools dropped in there.

Rita, I love all your projects. I was especially drawn to the idea of using the scraps and finishing off spools of thread. It would give me great pleasure to throw empty spools in the trash too.

Love your prayer flags Wendy.

I think that the time of year makes us all feel a little depressed and sluggish which makes it hard to clean up the mess in the sewing room. Lately I have been feeling like I am beginning to drown in scraps so I have started to put together some crazy patch blocks. I used a light weight muslin fabric as the backing which I cut at 4 1/4" and then attached random fabrics to it and cut the squares to 4 1/2". I then joined 4 blocks together and used lots of decorative stitches on my machine along all the seams with yellow/gold thread. I am using up loads of old spools of thread to put these pieces together and it feels great to be finally throwing some spools in the bin. There are 16 blocks in this photo but I have done 24 so far. I plan to make this quilt big enough for a single bed without any borders just a pale coloured sashing in between the blocks.



I also made a quilt for my sister for her 60th birthday. It is from Edyta Sitar's book. But I didn't make the house blocks from 1" strips of fabric as I needed to do it quickly. It's not quilted in this photo but the quilt is finished and ready to deliver now.


I am also in the process of making this scrap quilt. I have actually attached the piano keys border with a pale coloured sashing in between but not in the photo. Not sure if it's finished yet.
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Apart from that I have been working on the BOM every month and hope to have it ready for Christmas.

Oh and I have a little CW quilt which I have started but not sure yet how to finish but hopefully will get it done by 1st November.

Actually, it feels like more of a depressed mess. Not feeling at all creative at the moment.

Ditto on the mess.

It's all those fireplaces she's sewing

Creativity is messy! I bet its a beautiful mess!

A mess!

Pleased you like them, what have you all been making?

Wendy.. You are such a talented lady !!

Terrific, Wendy! I really like them!

Well done Wendy!