Scrap happy

~ Liz A ~ 23 Comments

I had so so many bits and pieces of cloth leftover from the Albers triads and painting log cabins … so I’ve been piecing pairs, then combining them into strips, and stitching the strips into blocks …

Most of the patches are whipped together with two strands of black DMC floss, for unity …

The blocks ended up being around 8” or so … but I’m not measuring at this point. Eventually they’ll be pieced together into 54” strips and added to the table cloth.

In other news, a wren family has moved into the bird house that Don and the kiddos made …

And Don’s garden is thriving in our above-average spring rainfall …

Tea time redux (I love that word)

~ Liz A ~ 12 Comments

The scrap catcher I keep next to my stitching chair is definitely too small …

But it’s such a fitting vessel and it’s easy enough to reach down and scoop up the scraps every so often …

As I did so today, I wondered how long it’s been since I made it … and was shocked to discover it’s been more than six years …

But definitely less shocked to find that some things … like Deb’s threads … never change …

It’s too bad we don’t drink tea anymore … but hmmm … what could I do with coffee filters?