Secret Squirrel Stuff

A bit of a look at my exceedingly classy scrap storage *ahem* system

…but I’m carefully turning piles of scrappy bits into…

...usable bits of fabric…for this lovely swap group


…but the best secret squirrel item is this little block…                                      

...on it's way to it's new home...hope it makes it in time!!!

Sunday Snippets...Blogtoberfest Day 30

The penultimate Blogtoberfest post...in under the wire!

After an afternoon of partying and catching up with friends, then rolling in the door half an hour ago, all I can say is thank heavens I can rely on Sunday Snippets to get me through this second to last post!

 Block #2 for the Canton Village Bloggers BOM.

I should have done it with a rectangle for the solid yellow, but it's a bit quicker this way...and I need to use shortcuts or I wouldn't get much 'making' done at all.
The other fabrics are scraps cut into 2 1/2"  & 4 1/2" squares for 'whenever'...me? organised? who'da thunk it?

Sunday Snippets here

Blogtoberfest bloggers here

thanks for taking a peek over the fence...

Short Attention Span Sunday

The MATH was sitting watching a DVD and enjoying the quiet time that was his due this Fathers Day (even though he spent 10 days in New Zealand last week and I still have 9 days owing to me...).
I had made some progress on the washing and cleaning and thought I might try and whittle away at the mound of square-in-a-square blocks that were needing finishing.
So into the sewing room. It's pretty messy. It's pretty distracting.
There are the offcuts from the denim quilt.
There are the scraps from the paisley quilt.
There are the little left over bits of wadding.
All carefully saved for when I get time..


And you know what, I just didn't want to finish the squares...I couldn't believe it either...I wanted to do something else, not get on with what was suddenly some very annoying and fiddly and not-finshing-fast-enough squares, and bothered by what-possessed-me-to-do-such-a-yucky-block thoughts...I found something else to do.
I found short attention span Sunday:

I took the denim scraps,

the paisley scraps, the wadding scraps, a hair elastic and 

a button...

Clare's idea 

and altered the pattern from here

and came up with this.

And since it's short attention span Sunday, I've moved on to something else even more captivating, and this is the best photo of the rotten lot I took.

thanks for taki...