It needs a name!

Apparently I've forgotten how to rotate my photos - this is a sideways version, but it's D-O-N-E.  All those triangles went together easily.  It's looking either "watery" or "snakey".  I finished it with a Faux flange binding, hardly visible in this photo.  Opinions for a name?

Below is a kids "I Spy" quilt that started as a Disappearing Nine Patch but it was so overly busy and uncoordinated-looking, that I took every piece apart, trimmed each piece to a more accurate size and finished it up like below.  This was a good lesson to remember "Structure" in a quilt.   This will go to a niece who is a Social Worker Extraordinaire, who always had babies coming and going in her home.  She calls the quilts "mats", because her floors are frequently "crawling" with darling babies of various ages.  Some return home, some are adopted or fostered, etc.  The baby might take a quilt with them if possible.  

I'm showing the back to remind myself to keep on using what I already have using the multitude of cute kids 4-inch squares.  The back still needs a pocket and I'll tuck in a store-bought little teddy bear (child-approved).  

Scraps Be GONE!

No photos - today, I did a BIG procrasting thing.  I emptied, AND TOTALLY DISCARDED one entire storage box of little fabric/quilt parts and pieces - probably over 1000 little saved bits - walked them all the way to the dumpster and dumped them in - non retrievable.  DH always says "one step at a time" and "make every day count."    

Then, in prep for a quilting retreat and trying to come up with a project that wasn't too demanding, I dug out the latest collection of batting and cut up 56 nine inch squares.

OMG - I feel like a huge weight has been lifted from my chest.  This feeling of relief was totally unexpected.  Perhaps someone else out there was having the same problem, discarding unused bits and pieces.

This is not saying I'm not sewing - I am still at it, but those various boxes of fabric strips and snips was mentally holding me back from enjoyment.