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Scrappy Sunday

Today I spent a good 5 hours in the sewing room working on pressing and cutting scraps into useful sizes.
Had a good size piles to work with. I organize them by the closes size I could trim them down to.
Starting with 2 1/2", 3", 3 1/2" 4", 5" 6 1/2" and had even a few large pieces


With those I went ahead and cut them into squares and some strips.


Some of the pieces were units that mom had sewn and strip sets


Which I will use to help complete what I had up on the wall of the blocks mom made.


Like I said yesterday this will be fun. My poor mom is now dealing with Bronchitis. Seems like it's one thing or another lately.
She'll be surprised when she see what I've done with her scraps.

This evening I took a break from sewing and did a little crocheting on a new afghan I started this week


This too is using scrap yarn that mom gave me many years ago.

Linking up with Kathy's 

and with Cynthia's




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  1. mamasmercantileJanuary 15, 2018 at 7:01 AM

    Love the afghan, green is one of my favourite colours. What a delight to be able to use up scraps, looking forward to seeing the end result.

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  2. Karen - Quilts...etc.January 15, 2018 at 7:58 AM

    I hope your mother will do better soon if it isn't one thing it is another. Wish her well. I need to make time this year to organize more of my scraps I have two boxes in the closet crammed full, I don't even know what is in them at this point and I have all of those that are cut and stacked in boxes in the sewing room on the shelf too

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  3. dqJanuary 15, 2018 at 8:16 AM

    The blocks on your design wall are stunning. It is really going to be a beautiful quilt. I love blues!

    Your afghan is coming along nicely as well. I love to crochet but have only done the edges of baby quilts lately.

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  4. Quilter KathyJanuary 15, 2018 at 10:20 AM

    Great job of organizing scraps! Way to go!
    Such a lovely afghan you have started!

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  5. Many Hands and Many HeartsJanuary 15, 2018 at 11:06 AM

    Hope your mom gets to feeling better soon. I love what you are doing with those scraps. Thanks for sharing with Oh Scrap!

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  6. BarbJanuary 15, 2018 at 2:14 PM

    sorry about your mom...hope she gets better and I so love what you are doing.

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