Lagniappe - Using Those Cut Off Corners

I wasn't going to do this . . . 

I was going to toss those extra corner pieces in the trash.

But I just couldn't do it.

I even rescued the remains of the failed design slab

(see previous post)

so I could cut a few extra half square triangles.

But what to do with them?!?

It didn't take long to connect the dots.

I inherited this elderly quilt book not long ago

and instantly fell in love with Bertha.

This was the updated version as shown in the book.

Which reminded me SO much of this quilt from

Roderick Kiracofe's Unconventional and Unexpected book.

And I knew what I wanted to do with my scrappy HSTs.

I did a bit of shopping in the stash

and came up with the fabrics on the right

to use for scrappy sashing strips and

the fabrics at the top to create a scrappy back.

I'll use the purple spiral for binding.

Next I cut HSTs from the last of 

my turquoise Cherrywood fabric and

most of my turquoise Concrete fabric.

I've sewn some of the pairs together already

just so I could see how my idea would work.

Now as I make the remaining blocks for Catharsis,

I will cut HSTs from each set of cut off corners.

And soon I'll be able to make a U&UQAL

challenge quilt using those rescued bonus pieces.

I really wasn't going to do this . . . 

but I'm glad the squirrels encouraged me to go for it.

Quiltdivajulie

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Lagniappe defined - from The Free Dictionary:  
"We picked up an excellent word—a word worth traveling to New Orleans to get; a nice, limber, expressive, handy word-'lagniappe'.... It is the equivalent of the thirteenth roll in a 'baker's dozen.' It is something thrown in gratis, for good measure." In this passage from his memoir Life on the Mississippi (1883), Mark Twain calls his readers' attention to an American regionalism that he thinks deserves to be better known, lagniappe. The story of lagniappe begins in South America: it ultimately comes from the word yapay, "to give more," in Quechua, the language of the rulers of the Inca Empire. The Quechua word was borrowed into Spanish as a noun spelled either llapa or ñapa, meaning "bonus, a little something extra added as a gift," and the word then spread throughout the Spanish of the Western Hemisphere. Eventually, the Spanish phrase la ñapa, meaning "the gift," entered the rich Creole dialect mixture of New Orleans, where the whole phrase came to be thought of as a single word and acquired the French spelling lagniappe. The word was then borrowed into the English of the region. Lagniappe continues to be used in the Gulf states, especially southern Louisiana, to denote a little bonus that a friendly shopkeeper might add to a purchase. By extension, it may mean "an extra or unexpected gift or benefit."