This and that

Monday morning was a good one for sewing, with progress again on multiple projects.    

Because I was out of binding to do in the evenings, I pulled out one of the doll quilts that I made earlier this winter, and got binding put on it. Since it's only 25" square it probably will only take 1 evening to hand stitch.  

The block for Saturday Sampler for March is done. This block is 15" finished. Anthologie is the pattern we're using this year, and it is a sampler type of project with a mix of traditional blocks plus applique. Some blocks require multiples, but there will be only 1 of Le Fleur.

The 12" Farm Girl Vintage blocks have been sewn into rows.  There are 6 rows of 5 blocks, so it will be 60 x 72, unless I add some borders to make it bigger.  That decision can wait until I see how it looks without borders.

Four of the 12 blocks with white stars are all done.  These will go quickly in between other things because the parts are all cut and layed out on a design board.  They're only 8" blocks so they make good Leaders/Enders.  

At Sew Vintage on Saturday afternoon I found myself reminded of a scrappy RWB project that has been going on in my sewing room for a number of years now. 

For several years as I've worked on blocks for Quilts of Valor, there have been corner triangles trimmed off.  I can't just throw them away, so they become 2.5" HSTs that get trimmed and dropped into a big bag on a shelf. A big variety of reds and blues are sewn to a bigger variety of light neutrals. 

This is the ongoing project that has been tucked into that bag with the HSTs.  Every so often I add another row to it.  There is no plan in my brain yet for how large I want to make this.  But it has been fun to watch it slowly grow. I'll probably add a couple more vertical rows to it this week since red is the RSC color.