Dumpster Diving Prep Work

There has been a lot (!!) of computer time the past few days

with massive edits for the organization

where I serve as Board President

and another group of edits/thoughts/suggestions

 for Lynne's work-in-progress Zebras quilt tutorial.

In addition to all that focused brain work,

 I've felt lethargic/distracted and unable to sit and sew.

So I've been cutting fabric into little pieces instead.

June's color for the  Rainbow Scrap Challenge is PINK.

(much more fun than May's dark green)

I'll make one block with the darker pinks in the first photo

and the second block with these lavender bits.

Dumpster Diving 11 - Mischief Maker 

will be colorful if nothing else.

Next I tackled the boxes of fabrics and scraps 

gathered for Dumpster Diving 10 - Blue Springs Road.

After I piece the two RSC blocks shown above,

I want to work on Blue Springs Road's 

bits and pieces as leaders-enders while I

piece the remaining spiderweb blocks for Feisty.

But that meant the gathered long strips 

had to be cut into smaller bits first.

I had planned to use black on white in the design

but as I sorted through the box of blues

I discovered more than enough of these

blue and whites - so I'm going to use them instead.

The stash of yellow strips were also cut into smaller pieces.

This particular Dumpster Diving quilt 

will feature longer segments to play into the feel

of the free download called Spring.

Here are all of the segments ready and waiting

for me to pin them into pairs

that can be kept beside my machine 

for easy leader-ender stitching.

I also tackled the stacks of pink and aqua yardage

that had been set aside for Dumpster Diving 10 - Do Tell.

My goal was to cut 3-5 strips from each of the fabrics

and then get them back on the shelf where they belong.

Mission accomplished for this one.

(I won't sub-cut and worry with  pinning pairs for Do Tell

until that process is completed for Blue Springs Road)

After making the various RSC placemats using 1.5" strips

along with the RSC Dumpster Diving 11-Mischief Maker blocks,

I had a pile of leftover pieces that didn't work

with any of the other planned Dumpster Diving quilt projects.

I started putting those random leftovers in one box.

It didn't take long to realize there would, indeed,

be a thirteenth quilt in my Dumpster Diving series.

I've named No. 13 Surplus, for obvious reasons.

Here's a look at the accumulated strips (so far).

Oh yeah, I'm obsessed . . .

(you can click on the labels at the end of this post

to read previous posts for any of these projects)

Quiltdivajulie

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