Friday, July 19, 2013

A Scrappy Week

I spent much of my sewing time this week dealing with scraps...  I have piles and piles of scraps leftover from various projects in my disaster of a sewing room. I actually do most of my sewing at the dining room table but my DH would like me to move down to the sewing room, so we can actually use our dining room table for dining!  We are going to convert our home office--no longer needed since we have a portable laptop computer now, into a sewing room with a door through to my current sewing room which will become a fabric storage area and cutting station. I will eventually get a new sewing machine table with room for 2 or 3 quilters and there will be room for the ironing board and my design wall in that room too. There is a window in the home office so that will be nice too. I think that is why I did not like the sewing room that much--I like to have some daylight coming in through a window!

I had three drawers of scraps in my sewing room plus the aforementioned piles of scraps. First, I sorted all the 2.5" strips into ziploc bags by colour...

Next, I tackled the drawer full of strings...

All labelled and easy to grab what I need...

I have been sorting through my leftovers and cutting them up into the strips for the bags...

Next, is the dreaded small scraps drawer...I will need a good long movie or two to watch while I sort that mess out.

While I was sorting, I took a couple of sewing breaks to make some more slabs for Alberta.



I have had some slabs delivered to me as well...

Carol mailed her slab...


Heather dropped off 7 slabs tonight...



Anne put hers in my mailbox last night.



Karen, Jessie and Pat  dropped theirs off last week (see the last blogpost for pictures of my first three slabs and their slabs).

I laid out the slabs on the design floor and stood on a chair to get a picture...

18 slabs so far and more are coming. I should have enough for a 24 block quilt top and some extra slabs to mail to Cheryl next week!  I know that there are some more coming in the mail and will not mail the package to Cheryl until everything arrives. Thanks, everyone, for contributing to this project!

Tomorrow is a sewing day with some people from the London Friendship Quilters' Guild so I will be working on a birthday gift for Christine and some binding. I have a kit to make a quilt as well--I may bring it along to work on if there is time.



3 comments:

  1. That is going to be one awesome slab quilt!

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  2. I can probably add one more by the end of tomorrow.

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  3. Great job! I made and sent Cheryl just one slab from the U.S. - $7.65 for postage! The P.O. considered it a package....

    I just spent over two weeks in London, my hometown, and had i known you were meeting on the 20th I would have made more slabs while at Mom's, if I'd had a way to get them to you. It's great to see the level of participation Cheryl has received. No small project that she's taken on, eh? ;)

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