Charity flimsy finish

I read about a quick block over on Quilting Gail's blog.

I took some 5 inch squares and made my version of her block.

I only had 5 squares of each fabric. 

There were some gray on gray squares, too.

I used the gray cut at 1" X  5" between the sliced 5 inch squares.

For the 'plus sign' I cut different gray print squares

 in half and added a 2.5" pink square in the middle.

That only made 5 blocks.

So I dug around in my tub of white scraps for alternative blocks

and made this giant 9 patch.

There was enough white to add a border.

Then I found a soft yellow print with buzzing bees for the outer border.

I have a backing fabric and binding cut, so it's ready to be quilted and bound.

My Color Theory blocks are coming along.

I bought a 3 in 1 Color Tool to add to my collection of reference books.

Compare the two photos above.

I changed the 3 squares in the right bottom.

I think it works better.

Mr. M hung this shelf in my sewing room.

He remembers making the shelf with Uncle Harold's help many years ago.

The messy looking pile on the antique pedal sewing machine

is actually organized chaos.

I put all the parts of a project in these bags so I can see them.

I forget about projects that are put away neatly in tubs.

That's all for today.

Happy Sewing!