A quilt waiting in a tote

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I saw these earlier today and snapped them late this afternoon. Reminds me of some of the fabrics I encountered, hehehe.

After I finished cutting fabric today, I had some four and a half inch wide strips left, and I put them in a tote notable for four and a half inch wide strips, among other scraps. I carried the tote into the living room with the desire to go through it later. Well, I just did so, and to my delight, what amounts to at least an entire quilt top/back is waiting for me to piece it together.

Maybe more like two tops/backs, what with MANY strips as well as two stacks of varied sizes of large scraps, my goodness! It was like revisiting the last five-plus years of my stash, perhaps longer. One particular autumnal-hued piece went into the autumn-6.5" stack to be cut into squares, while another small collection of already cut 4.5" squares went into another tote. Only a few pieces were tossed from prints I don't need, and those pieces were small. Funny to think how much fabric gets kept, regardless of whether or not I need to keep it.

Well, I do need it. Not certain why but.... But since I can't hand-sew right now, putting together a scrap quilt from, well, scraps.... Sure! An improv scrap quilt of ancient-ish scraps.... Scrap, scrap, scrap! Guess I'm in a scrappy mood, LOL.

These scraps are bright and full of flowers, which will lift our very gray days that have been hanging around for coming on two weeks. Hard to believe it's May at times until it's eight p.m. and still light outside despite the clouds. I'll be eager to see how far north along the horizon the sun rises when we get a clear morning.

Before I make this scrap quilt, I need to sew up another quilt, but this will be a back, no question. The fabric I've been cutting is for this project, which will back a Warm Hearted EPP quilt top I stitched last year. I plan to hand-quilt that project, but slowly as not to aggravate my shoulder any more than it's already cranky. Compromise is the name of my current sewing game; if using my machine is what I can do, cool. If going very slowly with hand-stitching works, okay! If I end up with stacks of finished tops/backs in the closet, well....

There's a reason for all these things. I wouldn't have dreamed a year ago that I'd have given up my nightly English paper piecing because I just can't do it. Writing that feels odd, having to eschew a manner of sewing that I love because my body says NO. Dang! But we move on with life, because that's what we do. I wrote a book this late winter-early spring. I haven't written in ages! I just have to go with the flow because I don't want to sit on the sidelines, crying in my beer.

LOL, I hate beer. I love being creative. Just need to be patient with myself as the world, and the cliches, turn....

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