More Pot Holders

Eight of the half square triangles have been put to good use.

Two more pot holders.

I think that will be the last of them for this month.  Now I have to concentrate on finding the fabric and batting to get  the tiger quilt and wallhanging finished.  Meanwhile, a couple of other projects are calling to be done before the end of the month.

Green Saturday

Another day trying to use up my green scraps, this time I made two pot holders.Again I used the quilt as you go method with the strips set on the diagonal this time.

More green for the backing.  This is the same fabric as I used for the table runner.  I didn't have green for the binding on this one, so I used a dark red.

The binding on this one was some of the leftover fabric I used for the strips.

The backing of this one, was some of the green I had been gifted in the week.  You can see, I've also used some in the front.

This one is slightly larger than I would normally make, but I thought it was a useful size to use on the table.

It's getting more challenging as the scraps get used up, but I think I have the germs of an idea growing for the next project.  I think I will be sewing lots of half square triangles today.

Some more blue

I've never used strings or selvedges before, they were always the bits I threw away, but I've been learning from the experienced quilters out there.  I'd seen some tutorials and blocks that had been made using them, so, while I was piecing the blue top, I kept the strings.  I was going to keep them until I had a few more, but looking at them, I thought there were enough for one block. 

This was the pot holder/pot stand that resulted.  I joined them directly to the batting and backing fabric, so it was very quick to do.  

 The other scraps that found a home, were these cat motifs.  I appliqued them onto some pale blue denim and made it into a little hanger.

In the smallest room of the house, there is a little strip of wall with a hanging nail already waiting.  It's only taken three years to find something narrow enough to fit.

The post man has been very good to me this week.  He's brought me the border fabric for the blue quilt, and yesterday the blue thread.  That means I can now start to get a few things finished.