This is what happens when I clean and organize my sewing space. I find bits and pieces of UFOs among other things. I was cleaning out some scrap baskets on my sewing table yesterday. I toss my scraps into baskets on my table. When a basket is overflowing, I take out all the pieces and cut them up into usable bits like squares, rectangles, strips for strip piecing, etc. I cleaned out two baskets and then I found this one last basket. It contained 144 HSTs (that measure 2.75 inches square), some strip sets that were sewn together for 9 patches, and 6 pinwheel blocks.
All these pieces were left over from a mystery quilt. When I cut off the triangles, I pieced them together. I love doing that, but now I have all these HSTs and I am not sure what to do with them. When I finished the top of this mystery quilt back in 2008, I sewed two little blocks together from some of the leftover HSTs. I was trying to determine what design I would use with these little blocks. I like the block with the swirly triangles on the outside best. I wish I had more of the swirly fabric. I went back to the fabric store after I completed this top to see if they had any of it left, but unfortunately it was all sold out.
I am soliciting design ideas for these blocks. If I sew these blocks all together, it will be a small quilt since the blocks are so small. If you have a design idea you would like to share with me, I would appreciate it.
Happy Quilting
P.S. Blogger is finally uploading my pictures. It just takes a long, long, long time!
5 comments:
Pam, I'm anxious to see what you come up with as I have a bunch of half square triangles in a basket too!
The blue seems to glow on these blocks.
Amazing fabrics - amazing sewing.
Hmmm, what would the blocks look like doing both blocks and alternating them? That might be interesting. Other than that, I don't have any suggestions. That swirly fabric is great - so sad that it's gone.
Well that is one way to make a quilt. All the pieces are ready to sew. Fun!
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