Stop Cleaning! Start Sewing!

My short sheeted day started out like any other - but with a cut off time in preparation for getting Jason to the airport.

There was not going to be much time for machine stitching the X-Plus blocks.

Even if I was more than happy to be at my machine after giving the area a good clean up!

Under the machine are some carpet squares, there mostly to keep the machine from vibrating (it works!) but it also collects every bit of thread, lint, dust, dog ears - you name it.

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Bit By The Spring Clean Bug!

For months (or what seems like months) I've had random piles of fabric on my home sewing room cutting table.

It's just another flat surface where anything dealing with sewing room stuff tends to land.

In this case, it was Fat Quarters and larger scrap pieces intended for filing in my fat quarter bins at home.

Yes - my fat quarter storage is at home because I need SOMETHING to pull from at home when not sewing at the QPO, and there is no room for this rack at the QPO.

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Can't Take The Scrappy Out Of The Quilter!

These blocks don't look like much. Honestly.

Not by themselves, anyway.

But just wait until you see where they are going!

That New Year's encouragement I gave myself (I refuse to use the word goal because that becomes a rule and rules are meant to be broken, or at least procrastinated upon!) had me diving in to a section of my Scrap User's System that has been ignored and passed over for years.

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Monday Monday -

I've finished the first binding of 2026!

I think we are off to a good start, don't you?

I pretty much rage quilted through December.

It's as if the chaos of the world matched the chaos of my heart and things that came to pass over the past year in my own life all came together in the chaos of the scrap bins and making this quilt was somehow tying up all of those loose ends and finding a way to a calmer place in my life.

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