I finally found the pattern I wanted - Rememberance, from Kim Diehl's book Simple Seasons - that uses just two fabrics for the entire quilt, it's almost a sampler of 15" blocks with pieced sashings and a pieced inner border. I've liked this pattern for a long time. I guesstimated how much yardage I had, and compared my size of scraps to the sizes that needed cutting. Then I got to cutting - and cutting - and cutting - by now my little workspace was full of baggies, bits, reject blues (those that were a bit too green) all over the floor and everywhere. I was down to the last few bits to cut. Where on earth was I to find 24 - 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 inch pieces, now? Arrggh... Then do I really have to cut 16 2 1/2" squares out of all these leftovers? And finally, how I am to get 3 1/2 x 7 pieces now! I really should have read through the whole list and cut the bigger pieces first.
This is about when I wanted to run screaming from the sewing room...and on return, toss everything blue into the garbage! But I didn't. I took a deep breath and re-assessed. It turns out the 3 1/2 x 7 pieces were part of the pieced border, which was one of my favourite parts of this quilt, but they aren't meant to be. I'll have to redesign something at the end.This morning I couldn't wait to see if all my work would turn out a pretty quilt. So I cut up what I needed of the white background to make one of the blocks. Wonderful! I think I'll be very happy working on this, one block at a time.
