Leaders and Enders

This year, we have lozenges.

I hardly ever have used my 3.5" strips, so this is good!

I have been cutting them up, bit by bit and have them divided into these little plastic trays so they are evenly distributed between what gets black and what gets white corners.

70+ black and 80+ white done so far, in sets of 10s.

And Carolina Chain has horned its way in there too, lately!

They are just so easy to do and I really did (do!!) have a ridiculous pile of 2" strips to beat into submission...Not that the pile has gone down much, but we are sanguine n working on it! I'm up to a hundred or so blocks.

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Last year, we had split nine patch...

Because I had just done this one right before that, 

once I made a hundred or so blocks, I kind of got tired and wanted to try something else to make it bigger...

n so tried out scrappy trips blocks and it just was so lucky that since they have the same size, (2.5"), by the time I got tired of making scrappy trips, I had just enough for a border for the split nine patches I had done!

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Then, the year before that, we had Spoolin' Around!

Which was awesome!

You can see that I've had a little love affair with black n white polka dots the past few years!  lol

I did finish this top off with some 6" spool blocks in neutrals, and appliqued over top of it the 50 miles of "bonus" triangles, which  were super tiny!  Ooooo, I love how this turned out though!

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Gotta love the leader and enders!  I would probably not ever have made any of these, if it weren't for these challenges and it is super fun to basically, have them for nothing, in between the lines of my other sewing!

Thanks

and 

Happy 

Sewing!

Love,

Sarah

Spools

Here, I get to thank Bonnie Hunter twice.

First, for making me post to my blog, which I have been neglecting (again).

And mostly for the fun of this leader/ender project with the spool blocks, started last summer...

I had a fair sized stack done and couldn't resist sewing them together last month.

This is about 50" square in size.

I still need another couple of borders or something about 10" more on each side to make it bigger.

Still thinking about that...

Could be one border from a big piece of fabric from here:

Could be using some of these string blocks:

Or possibly incorporate any amount of the 500 miles or so of 1/2" bonus triangles left over from making the spool blocks:

Which would probably be ideal.

Let's go see what some other folks did with their spool block leader/enders!

Bonnie's Spool Block linky

Update here!

Best, 

and hope you all are having a great summer!

Sarah