Saturday, January 18, 2025

SAHRR Center Block

It's been a good Saturday, lots of little things being worked on - and progress being made!  I picked my center for the Stay at Home Round Robin.  I've been wanting to do something with this block for a while know.  It was a block I designed for the quilt shop last year.  I think it's super cute! I think I will add a small border before the first round starts, just to make sure it stands out nicely!

After that decision was made, I got busy pulling out all of my scrap collection.  It's gotten way out of hand and was the prompt yesterday for the Sewing Room Decluttering Challenge.  I do love making scrap quilts, but this is just way too much to store in my small space, so I am working on reducing it by half.  This will still leave me plenty, and you know how scraps are, they just start to multiply when you aren't looking!  I have not opened most of those bins in years, so I'm sure they hold some long-forgotten treasures that I really don't need anymore.

This bin is full of scraps as well - strips of 1 1/2, 2, 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 inches and pieces for fall projects in the bottom.  I'll take a look through here, too and see what I can let go. I don't really use these very often, so am wondering about whether I really want to take time to keep this system up.  It takes a lot of time to cut everything down into the strips, and if I'm not using them this way it's a waste of that time as well as of my storage. Time to make some decisions and free up some space.


Lastly, I have a whole lot of flannel scraps as well.  I save them from making Christmas pajamas. My goal is to make four more scrap quilts using these for my daughters (and finish the first one that I made - still working on clipping a huge rag quilt).  I think I probably have more saved than I need, so I will go through what I have and pass on some of the ones I don't like as much as the others.  Then I need to schedule time to work on these as well as come up with some ideas as I find making the rag quilts too tedious.  I'm sure there are better ways to use the flannel that I will enjoy more.



I haven't done any sewing on my Blue Skies project yet, but I did order batting and backing.  Oh, and I found more triangles for another border on it.  So, I guess I may take a shot at sewing those up and adding them to the top this week.  I'm giving myself a week to get this done, so I can spend the last week of the month quilting it.  Looking forward to my first public finish of the year! 

3 comments:

Quilting Gail said...

I'm thrilled that you're joining SAHRR this year!!! I'm in love with your Centre Block!!! So pretty!! Thanks for linking up!

Kathleen said...

FUn to see you sewing along with SAHRR!

piecefulwendy said...

What a cute center block! Glad you are stitching along with us this year!