NEXT!!

I don't know about you, but there are these quilty muse voices that come around every once in a while (Because hearing them constantly would mean I was definitely a bit crazy?) daring me to stop whatever I'm doing and make good use of some aspect of the Scrap User's System that has been neglected for a while.

This is such a place.  My scrap squares drawer.

There is everything in here - I bet if I dug down there will be squares I saved from 20 years ago.  I just keep adding them to the drawer like layers of sediment. The prints will tell you how long they've been in there.  It's time.

I have had this photo in my "someday" photo folder since 2017!  I don't remember where the photo was taken, but I was lecturing and teaching somewhere and someone brought it for show and share.

I fell in love with it right away, but it always flipped back to the back burner because....Y seams.

I thought it might make a great EPP project (And it would!) but I already have another hexie going and that means it would be years and years longer before I could get started.

Cut from leftover binding - may as well use it!

I love the red as accent.  Solid red has always been "the punch" to tie together random scraps in various colors. 

Because it is a solid, it stands out just a bit more and doesn't blend in to whatever else is going on.

So I jumped in, encouraged by the red fabric I still had, and this box of squares that needs to go. And these Y seams are wide and gentle.

I think we are coming along just fine.

We have the mystery coming up.  Don't worry, I haven't forgotten.  I still have my leader & Ender Tulip Swirl slowly growing in the background.

And this will be a very slow piecing at the machine project to take me through the winter.  The pieces are small. There is loads of pin matching. Not to mention the cutting.

If anyone has any history on the origin of this quilt pattern could you let me know? I'm not even sure what to call it or where it came from.  Kansas City Star maybe?

At the inn, Halloween is busting out all over -

Spider & The Fly  on the wall.

Punkin Patch from String Frenzy  on the chair.

Light up pumpkins and more pumpkins in the dining room!

Punkin Patch Runner on the sideboard.

More smiling pumpkins on the treadle -

Eclipsed on the foyer wall

Appalachian Autumn on the round table -

I had a blast changing the decor from sunflowers to fall!

And just because sewing doesn't always mean quilting...there was even some sheet mending going on.

After 7 seasons, there were a few seams popping in the corners of the fitted matresses.  They still have a lot of wear go go and they have been washed so much that they are so soft!

Still - I know the writing is on the wall and I ordered up 12 new sets of 100% cotton sheets because we women of a certain age need our sheets to BREATHE and not be made with micro-fiber which is another fancy word for polyester plastic.

That still leaves me wondering though....what can I do with the "still good" 100% cotton fabric from these older sheets?

Hazel: "What do you mean, mom?!"

Do you intend to keep them all?!?

I'm not sure yet.  But I had to see good fabric go just because it is frayed at the cuff or hem.

The Muddy Creek Misfits have checked in and they were already sewing by the time I headed home last night.  

I'm on my way back over to see what they are getting up to - let the retreat fun begin! Again!

Quiltville Quote of the Day -

Let go of things that prevent you from having the time for things that matter.⁣
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It sounds so much easier than it is, but it is so worth it!⁣ 

(Does this apply to old sheet sets?!)

Have a terrific Thursday, everyone -