Losing track of time
Can you be consumed by the process of making a project? Yes, yes you most certainly can!
For the past few days I’ve been so consumed with working on my latest impromptu quilt project that I’ve lost all track of time.
I’ve rummaged through my basket of blue fabric scraps looking for the perfect shades of blue for my quilt project. I was determined not to cut any yardage from my mini bolts on the shelves. Next, I went looking through my fat quarters and used some of them.
It was more of a challenge with the white fabric scraps as I didn’t have a good selection, I think I had 3 small scraps of white on white (apparently I had used them up on other smaller projects ) and the rest was plain white Kona cotton fabric scraps, none of that would do for this project. As it turned out, I used a 3 yard piece of a swirly white on white print fabric that gave me the contrast I was looking for. FYI- I used every inch of that 3 yards of fabric too! That was a real eye opener, a 48 piece of fabric cut up into bits in the blink of an eye and that’s just the white part!
My first goal is to shop my fabric stash. No outside purchases allowed. My main objective is that I want to whittle down the amount of blue fabric scraps I have. Why? Because that basket is positively overflowing! I’ll know if I’ve been able to do that once the dust settles as my cutting island has heaps of blue fabric scattered here and there along with my Go Big electric AccuQuilt machine and platform on my workstation island.
Speaking of AccuQuilt, I’d still be in the cutting phase of making this quilt if it wasn’t for the fast and efficient way this system works. Every cut edge matches up perfectly, making it practically effortless to match seams and points.
Now my “fabric only” waste basket is overflowing with fabric trimmings and the floor is littered with thread snippets. I have my special recycling bag ready for filling. My daughter got me started with Retold Recycling. How this came into play- my daughter lives in a city where you have to use special city approved trash bags, yes you have to pay for each bag. She too is a quilter and those fabric and batting scraps are bulky and weighty. She wanted to be more ecology friendly and she discovered this company. Now I too am using them for my fabric scraps. I’d rather have something else made with them than just going into a landfill.
You can find the here www.retoldrecycling.com
816 pieces cut from white and an assortment blue fabrics. 408 sewn pairs. They’re all sewn, pressed, and now I’m on the arrangement phase of this impromptu quilt project of mine. The block name is “Churn Dash” it’s a classic, one that’s been around since the early 1800’s.
