I've Been Quiet But Busy....

Hi There!

Well, I managed to make 18 batik blocks before I got bored.

:-(

They're still on my design wall and YES.... the buyer is patiently waiting for her quilt but GOSH DARN.... You can't force creativity, right?!?!?

This creative person needed a break!



Soooo, since I had a lot of left over scraps and I try to keep these under a manageable pile, I decided to go to my new Quilt Idol.... Bonnie K. Hunter!



And, after a few minutes of page flipping, I decided to do "Rick Rack Nines", with my scraps.



My container of 3 blocks...



This is Monday's picture.

As of this evening, I now have 175 scrappy nine patch blocks, sewn up!

Blocks are cut at 2 inches.

Any fabric "strips" that are smaller than 2 inches, I try to cut into 1-1/4 inches, for that Lego Quilt.... And, yes, that's yet another "on-going" project.

Smaller than 1-1/4 inch?
Well, I call 'em "slivers" -
Slivers go directly into the garbage.



Now, here's a picture of my scrap pile which I'm slowly cutting into those 2 inch strips and ....

TAH-DAH!!!

As you can see, Bro is all back in one piece!!!



About 1 hour after I had posted those pics of (skeletal) Bro, Gilbert found the problem.... A "bushing" had seized, near the manual wheel. He greased it up and un-seized it and "Bro" is just like NEW!!!

And as much as I appreciated and love my Featherweight, it still wasn't "Bro"....

One more day and then it's the weekend!!!!

Rosa