Cutting and Cutting

The past few days, I've been busy cutting fabric. I put a new blade in my rotary cutter and I've been cleaning through my stash, cutting up pieces of fabric I'm just not in love with any more.



I've been using Bonnie's Scrap Users System for about a year now and I'm loving it. I once stored all those not so nice fabrics in my cabinets wondering, "what in the world will I do with them"? Now, they are being used in scrap quilts and I don't feel guilty about owning them. Some are not so pretty, but as scrappers say, "It just hasn't been cut small enough." I have also decided to start a collection of "Not so Nice" 10 1/2 inch squares for backings. See examples on Bonnie's site. The stack is about 6 inches tall, so I have a good start, don't you think? I am excited to be using what I have instead of complaining about it and fretting over unused pieces of fabric.



While I was in a cutting mood, I pulled out my Civil War fabrics and finished cutting the other 40 blocks for Dear Younger Son's Double Four Patch quilt. I need 100 blocks, now all are cut and 60 are sewn. Yeah! I'm feeling some progress! Baby Steps....baby steps....one block at a time..... The Double Four Patches are sewn by hand, maybe that's what's been holding me back!!!!







Today, I'm planning on going through my little laundry basket of ugly and not so nice fabric and reducing it to small usable strips. If I get that done, I'll dig through my 2 1/2 inch strips and start gathering fabrics for Bonnie's Super Bowl Bargello Quilt. Hmmm, sounds interesting, huh? Check it out! What a great way to use up more scraps!