Sunday, October 25, 2020

It was my intention today to clean up my sewing room. I haven’t done it for quite awhile and I’m starting work on a new project tomorrow so I didn’t want too much mess lying around.

The scrap basket I keep on my cutting table was stuffed full so I started there. All the bits got cut down into squares or rectangles. When I went to place them in the scrap drawers there wasn’t enough room. So I started clearing out the drawers. I finally got them emptied enough that I was able to shut the drawers; I also have shoe boxes full of the same sized squares and rectangles. I didn’t do any cutting or sorting on those scraps.

I found the pattern I was looking for yesterday; it turns out it is pinwheels and not half-square triangles as I thought. But I had all those leaders and enders to press and square up and they’ve all been organized. I’m not sure what I’ll do with all the half-square triangles I have but I know I’ll find a purpose.

Since it appears my two scrappy projects involve pinwheels I did a bit more sorting and my leaders and enders for the next while will be ones that are the right size for those two projects.

I have a bit of fabric and a quilt top in the other room and I’ll have to get that looked after; generally everything is tidied and put away though. What’s left is to empty my garbage and recycle and get the vacuuming done.

I’ll be ready to cut into that lovely white fabric tomorrow.