Majoring in the Minors

An ironing board sits to the right of my sewing table so that I can easily press pieces as I sew. I call it an ironing board but much of it seems to double as another table, collecting projects that are in play or surplus pieces to be dealt with. On the far end of the board is a basket runner that I keep meaning to finish up but it keeps getting buried with HSTs or whatever else is going on the design wall beside it. One of these days...

Anyway, I've been working on the tiny nine-patches for Omigosh and every time I press them I'm reminded of unfinished business by the piles of little pieces sitting just inches from the iron.

One of those piles were the cutoffs from the heart potholders that I made for the girls weekend in February. Looking for a break from the nine-patches, I trimmed them to 2" and made two blocks two out of them rather than have them keep floating about the room distracting me. 

It's a fun combo of the plain and pieced triangles all together.

Beside that pile were a couple of sets of cream and brown blocks that I had cut for Churn Dash blocks. I'd looked high and low for them a while back but only found them in another pile this week when I tidied up a bit. They soon became five little 3.5" Shoo Fly blocks.

I have no idea where they will be used but for now they are in my pile of Kitchen Sink blocks - much better to have them assembled into blocks than kicking around and having me keep moving them around. Besides, they are stinkin' cute at the size that they turned out. There is something to be said for cleaning up a few little bits...M