Scraps? Yes, please!

Erm, well that's what I always say, but when I went to tidy my sewing room I noticed that I was becoming a scrap collector LOL! 'Grumps' put a curtain rail up in the spare room where I have a temporary sewing space and to enable him to get to the window, I had to move my sewing table which I have now admitted was far too large for the space. So large in fact that I could hardly sew at it. Sounds crazy, but it allowed almost no space for a chair in front of it before meeting the bed. Sooooo, the table has come out, I've had a little tidy and I have reduced 2 bags of African scraps into...



55 (untrimmed) string blocks and half a bag of almost useless crumbs which I will probably just send to DS1's nursery. One of the bags came from an SA friend and I have had them for ages, the other bag was scraps from blocks I've made. Oh, it's good to use scraps!!!

DH allowed me to sew in the lounge for 2 nights. I got to watch tv and just sew, sew, sew. I'm thinking of doubling the blocks by adding a black HST to each...



But at least now they are more usable in this form.



I have a few swaps to attend to and then I plan to attack another box of scraps! Those string blocks are fun and make up really fast.


On the T-shirt front, the "mom' phoned to say that twins loved their gifts and DH said he saw one of my dinosaur t-shirts at kids tennis coaching that afternoon.


Of course you can never get kids to pose...



However, he did wear his for 2 days so I'll definitely make some more soon... keep your eyes peeled, because if I get really good, I'll put some in my shop :-) or you can custom order one [sewkalico at yahoo dot co dot uk]