Sitting around

 I am not much of a tv watcher and I don't read as much as I might like. Nor do I do hand applique. Goodness, what's a girl to do with a bum foot? Well, knowing I have boxes of organized scraps I brought one from the closet to the sofa. It was the 3" finished pieces. I sorted out sets of four light and dark triangles. Then I paired right sides together for sewing. Maybe only 30 sets of four. Plenty of singles left for another day. Later I sewed and pressed them.

  

                       Options to consider.

  

         HSTs ready for some friendship stars.

Now I am undecided what to do with them. I'm leaning toward the friendship star block. Filling in the background of the block  is where I'm stalling. I'll  probably go with scrappy light squares to use some of the many squares in the box. 

                        Pairs of 3.5" squares

 I moved to the floor to sort the squares. I noticed there were lots of pairs of dark squares. So I sorted those out as I picked out the light ones. No plans for them yet but I have a few ideas in my head. One thought is to just pass them on to the church ladies at quilt club. It was just something quiet to do while I chatted on the phone. 

          The box was full. These are the singles.

We've had high winds and now blizzard warni gs. I took another couple of boxes of scraps off the shelf. These were for the 2" finished pieces. I had decided to do the mystery quilt my friend is doing with her guild. I had to cut background fabric but it was a quick job with the Go cutter. Standing on one foot wasn't a problem.  I needed to make 4"  finished hst units too. All caught up with 4 steps. Clues will come one a month for the year. I'll put these aside now for a few months. 

                             Mystery pieces

I need to label the boxes in the closet so DH can locate what I want more easily. I push myself around the house in an office chair or crawl on hands and knees till they get sore.  No need to do stairs! Keep warm everyone.

Finished Flimsies

 I finished the 2 SAHRR projects weeks ago. No not quilted. I didn't add more to the first one but the second I added the last borders of my choice. Again I had leftover pieces that worked perfectly.  I didn't have enough to fill the corners of the last print. I settled on dark blue squares after auditioning many options. I will bind with the dark blue.  I really enjoyed these 2 projects. 

I also did the binding on dds quilt to get it out of here. Hours later she gifted it to a friend. 

Next I hoped to get back to longarming. Its been a few months. It'll be nice to get a few quilted before spring  arrives and I'm outside all day. 

A week ago we had a gorgeous spring day. I went for a walk in the woods across the street. It was the first time in 5 months. So happy to be there. Then I stepped in a hole and rolled my foot . Twice!. Then fell. Rested a bit. It didn't hurt much  since the nerve damage from slipped disk last fall. After I sat a bit I finished my trek to the top only a short distance. Slowly walked home maybe half a mile. Then half an hour later I took off my socks and found  my ankle had swollen. Off to urgent care for a short visit and confirmation that I broke my ankle. Oops.  Rather, Damn! There was a reason I saved the walking boot from the metatarsal break 20 years ago.  Rolled the foot that time too. 

So I didn't get to the longarm like I hoped. Now I hope to sit at the sewing machine soon. I'm pretty tired of the sofa.