As I was searching ..........

It seems as though I am always searching for something and as I am searching I find something I had forgotten.

I was searching for something in my box of odd blocks and I had a stack of large trays on top of the box. I'd  moved this stack a few time, thinking it was a stack of empty trays. This time I moved the top tray and found  3 trays of squares and rectangles that I had cut for blocks inspired by Donna Poster. Oh my! For a long time I have been cutting leftover scraps into specific sizes for future use. I was surprised to find these because I have a shoe box marked for "Donna Poster Blocks".These are sorted by shape and color so I must have been working on these and put them away, meaning t get back to them. I also came across seven 12 inch blocks that were not with these parts but hanging on a hanger in my sewing room closet. This block has been a "go to"  block for scrap quilts. With so much of the work done I should get back to it.

 I found this in a box labeled "components ans pieces and parts and .  This was from a Colorwash 9 Patch project that never got off the ground.   I thought about what I might do with it , other than cut it up for the dog bed bag.



















I moved some pieces and then cut away the triangles along the side and I have a roof for a house like the one below.

I was reminded of this house that I made a few years ago. It has a piece of foam core in the peak and a hanging loop so it can hang on the wall; I had just given it away last week. You can read about it here if you are interested.

I have some ideas about what to do for the house; I should get back to this.

 I found this hanging in the closet. These blocks are the last of the Quail's Nest block the Friendship group made for me a few years ago when It was my turn to receive blocks. I made another quilt with the rest of the blocks and these weren't a good fit color wise. I was using it for a demo on quilting in sections and had two sections put together and I added the other section. I want to make it just a little bit larger for a table topper. I Have been making piano key borders and I think they will make the perfect border to pull it all together.







This collage has the piano key border sections from the Framed 9 Patch, a quilt the is on the foot of my bed, and the "self portrait" that is on my sewing room wall.  I like the way the borders work to make the whole quilt cohesive on each of these. I have that mountain of scraps so I really should get back to this.

So......... there is a lot to do think about; I will have to see what I really want to do and what I might want to pass on to someone else. What takes precedence over working on anything is the task of  sorting out and purging all of the things in my sewing room that I am never going to use again.  I am working on my bookcase today.