UFO's

Since I haven't touched my stash since 2008 - I have many MANY unfinished projects waiting for me.  I also have many more projects that I want to start.  After all,  I've had four years to collect books, patterns and fabrics.  This should be fun......


 Strips and Scraps
A very long time ago (4+ years), I had a big bag of very small scraps and a few of those little jewelry sized boxes full of fabric samples.  I decided to sew them into squares to one day make a quilt.  The other day I was digging through a box and found my stack of scrappy squares. 

At first I thought of laying them out as squares, and putting a solid color of fabric (sashing) in between the boxes.

Then my creativity took it a step further.  I'm going to make all of the squares look like the following, and use a dark solid color for the sashing.  I'm thinking black would be a nice bold color to make the other colors really pop.

Stay tuned for this one..... It's coming up next.







 Scrappy Baskets
In the same box, I found a bag of these scrappy baskets:

The question is - how should I lay them out?

I like the look below, but I kind of lose that 'basket' vibe. Now it looks more like a square with weird triangles on the outside.

 This is another thought - but again the baskets are floating and the flowers get lost.

 Of course, I could always stick with the original pattern but who wants to be a copy cat?

I have a lot of tiny pieces cut out for this project, and not a lot of finished squares.  This quilt might have to be put away in a box for another year or two until I feel really inspired to finish it.