EXCHANGE INTERFACE

I have cooked raspberry and white choc chip muffins, french onion soup, and sweet tofu. And it is very good.

And I've been doing sewing things again. Partly because I had an exchange pouch to make, but partly because I've been intending to sort out the study for a while and...just never got around to it.

Two 'quilts' sowed together from squares that have been hanging around with intent for years.

One from silk samples my grandfather used to sell, and one from charm squares (like sample fabrics, but intentionally 5" square) that I bought back when I started quilting:


Two pouches: one for a friend's birthday, and one for the gift swap that kicked this flurry of quilting off in the first place


They're the Apertio Pouch by Blogless Anna, and a reasonably simple but interesting pattern.

One quilt that I spotted a really easy pattern for and put together over the course of two days out of charm squares that were just sitting around:
Doesn't have a name yet.


And I sewed together the blocks for two quilts that I had sitting around. These have both been hanging around for YEARS, like an awful lot of things around here.

Both offcuts and reject blocks from other quilts I've made or am making:


The original green-based quilt was called 'break free or build upon', and this is the only pic I seem to have of it where it's not finished. I was going to quilt it for the show, and then my machine started making grinding noises three days before the deadline and I simply didn't have time.

I ended up withdrawing it...but I've re-entered it for this year's show. So: that'll be interesting.


Otherwise, I've been trying to clean up the sewing space, sorting and organising fabrics, scraps, bags of projects, and tidying away boxes of yardage. Yesterday and today, I sorted out all the bags of fabric, scraps, and 'whatnot' that had been stashed around. I'm really going to have to work out a scrap sorting system, because what I have right now is horrifically unwieldy and just not going to work.

I also need to actually use the scraps I have. Of course, that's another matter entirely. At leat I have a couple of 'fast' patterns now, easy to put together and still pretty vistually dramatic.