I have a small laundry basket for strings that I throw stuff in while I'm cutting other things. Recently, I sorted the strings by color and put them in plastic bags. All the neutrals and all the bits of leftover binding are in separate bigger bags. I thought that would make them easier to use. And I guess they are. I made two table runners out of string-pieced equilateral triangles, and then I started on Pat Sloan's block a day challenge. Wish I could find the link, but it seems to have left her website.
Pat offered two different quarter log cabin blocks, each 12" finished but with differently sized centers. I cut out a bunch of 4.5" mottled charcoal black squares to give the quilt some unity and proceeded to use my strings for the blocks. I noticed "everyone else" cut even strips from fabric, but I was determined to make this a scrappy quilt. Our little vacation got in the way of my making a block a day, of course, so I spent a few days this past week making more blocks, ending up with 25 before I decided to stop.Yesterday I put all the blocks together and, while the result isn't awful, it isn't great either. The different widths of the strings make it awfully busy. But it's 60" x 60" so it will make a nice pieced back for the Green Tea and Sweet Beans flimsey (at left) I have had waiting to be quilted since September. Sandwiching the two for quilting will be my project for today.
I hear freezing rain tapping on the windows which I hope will melt the 6" of wet snow we got yesterday. The roads were very iffy in the morning, so we had to cancel the library book sale. But we did OK with the sale the day before, and everyone got a nice day off.
Because of the freezing rain today, I guess I will make some bread, too, rather than venture out on the roads. I just started Kristin Hannah's The Women so I'll spend some time reading, too. Happy Sunday!