sidetracked, again!

My recent tidy-up of scraps +stash has offered up a sprawl of possibilities, 

I bet your stash does too.

One good thing about a sort out is sometimes you find something you think you lost!
I knew I had a small basket of older vintage-y fabric somewhere, such a nice surprise to finally find it again. I had signed up for a 10" squares fabric pack, one a month, for nearly a year, many years ago. Occasionally there were fabrics I wouldn't have chosen but, as you know, I have a soft spot for scrappy.

If you’re anything like me, you’d get sidetracked by something you found too, yes? Initially I just started by pulling out some other fabrics that could possibly work, contemporary larger rosy florals teamed up with the older itty-bitty prints. I was going with a colourful mix & match scrappy vibe. 

I decided to incorporate them into a star quilt.

Fast forward to now and my sewing machine is back home, and I was able to just jump straight in.

Stars are a real favourite of mine✨. I just love them. They’re such a fun make, with so many opportunities to play around with colours, prints and shapes.

I'm also planning on combining my stars - inspo from @stitchesfoulweather. Lots of sawtooth stars mixed in with a few wheel of fortune blocks, both have the same sized center squares which appeals to me.

 

Enjoy the progress photos ...

Five #sawtoothstar blocks so far

This 2nd block is called the #wheeloffortuneblock - tutorial can be found at @fabric406 

Yes, I like where this is going💕

Linda

fabric everywhere

 

 *backyard bouquet inspo

Hello, hello. As I was cutting all those strips for my courthouse steps blocks (see my last post), I was going to tidy-as-I-go. But then it struck me that these fabrics were way too pretty to tuck away again quite so quickly. So, I also started cutting out 10" squares if the piece was big enough. 

I decided I'd make traditional broken dishes blocks in a bunch of fun bright fabrics in an effort to use up more of my stash. Inspiration for the quilt and *colour palette from Amanda at prairie quilt co.

I have heaps of cut out squares but only one block finished! 

Because sadly, everything came to a screaming halt. I had to take my sewing machine into the repair shop to be serviced and hopefully get the clunky sound in the bobbin repaired.  

Without my sewing machine here, it was time to start tidying up the sewing room. There's fabric everywhere at present - overflowing baskets, random fabric stacks, messy fabric spaghetti piles of leftover strips ...

... I'm in my happy place, 

sifting & sorting through this sprawl of possibilities

🌟