Fresh Starts

You know from my posts last month that I busted my hiney to clean up some UFOs so this year could be a fresh start. 

 I spent the week or so I had after I finished my last deadline project to clean up my sewing space and purge some scraps. 

I got everything tidy.

 

 Hung up some of my mini quilts finally.  I also purchased my much needed bolt of Kona white.

 I had purchased my new bolt of batting a few months ago during a big sale but I took it out of the corner and got it ready to go.  I still have a quilt or two worth left on my last bolt.  But getting the bolt out of the box helped my sewing space seem more put together.

 I took the traditional age progression photo of the monster on the bolt. 

After everything was nice in there... I started working.  I love fresh new projects!!  

These were my I-spy squares laid out.  I pieced my top and have the backing assembled also.  I just need to baste it sometime.... like if I ever mop the kitchen floor.  

Then I began cutting the squares for this project.  I have been planning this out in my head for weeks.  I saw this block in the In Color Order HST BOM.  I singled it out as awesome and decided to make a quilt.  I chose three fabrics at a quilt shop using a color way I found on design seeds. This project is so exciting to me.  I have about a thousand HST units to be sewn... but I'm not in any hurry.  I think it will be a great easy project to work on, set aside, pull out again and again for the next couple of weeks or even months.    

This fresh project was unexpected.  I was watching the photos of the scrappytripalong and I was dying. I wanted to make one so bad!  I did not feel like cutting a crap ton of strips so I pulled out a jelly roll that had been laying around and got to work.  I know its not really 'scrappy' bit its still exciting to me anyhow.  I think it will get scrappier as I go along.  I had trouble with these fabrics a few months ago with a layer cake I was using, so I added the white on the long diagonal to break it up because I know I'll need it.  

I'm going to start a log cabin quilt along with my real life long distance quilt friends.....That will mean a fourth quilt project to juggle, but I think I can handle it.