Stashbusting Sunday

First and most importantly,

 Happy Mother’s day to my Mom!

The sun is shining here and the birds are singing so it’s a very nice day here in the mid 60’s – especially nice to see the sun since rain is predicted for most of the rest of the week.  In Arizona – Mom is probably having a very hot day and wishing for some of our rain.

As for the stashbusting report — not much added to it this week.  3/4 yards used for binding and framing strips.   But nothing purchased either.  Hopefully I’ll be adding some backings on to next week’s progress and get another top or two layered.

However, I did manage to get three baggies of leftover blocks busted out of the UFO boxes and combined into a top so that was good–just didn’t require much other fabric added to it other than a couple framing strips. 

Here’s the combination of the batik Kats, the framed bricks and the framed triangles.  I think 4 years or so sitting in the stash was long enough for them.  So all the Kats were used, all except about 5 or 6 bricks and 7  triangles were left over.    I just need to attach the triangle borders to the sides of the quilt and then I think I’ll call that one done – leaving the angled corners.   I did keep 6 of the triangles and made this little piece..

  Don’t know what I’ll do with it – potholder, candle mat or table center piece, or maybe just a little wallhanging that will go on my office cubicle wall.  Who knows – but the rest of the left over blocks have hit the waste basket.

 

And check these out – I’m waiting for them to cool to see if I’ve perfected my chocolate chip/orange scone recipe.  I used mini chips this time instead of chocolate chunks — much easier to quickly fold them in tho I may have got a bit carried away with how many I added — but they’re little chips right??

Time to get to some sewing — get those borders attached and then maybe dig through the UFO baggies again to see what I can come up with next — oh yes, and refill my coffee cup and taste test those scones! 🙂

Denise