Four Patch Flimsy

It's a top!

Four Patch 

42 x 56

In a previous blog post I mentioned that I met my goal for the only block I was making from scraps in my 4 inch width scrap box. Most of the scraps in there have been given to me over time. When I receive a box of scraps I take my little six inch ruler and measure the width of scraps and put them into the appropriate scrap box. Larger scraps I call chunks are sorted and stored by color. I try to use smaller scraps as I receive them in one of the many blocks I have going but with my husband John's health problems off and on I sometimes don't have enough time to sew all the scraps as I receive them. 

Well, now that you see my 4 inch width scrap box overfloweth I decided to see what could be made with the contents and hopefully soon just end up storing a baggie of 4 inch squares. 

So, first I pulled out the blue scraps in the box. I had some sets of blue two 4 inch squares and longer pieces that would yield two squares enough for Four Patches for a small comfort quilt. Then I had to decide on an alternate color for the blocks. I didn't have enough of anything in the scrap box. 

I was recently gifted a bolt of orange fabric and since orange is the complement of blue I decided to use orange to complete my Four Patches. 

And orange is such a happy color too!

Now on to the next project to come out of the 4 inch width scrap box! I am still really in gardening mode so not getting much sewing done except when it is a rainy day so it may take me awhile to empty out that box but that is my goal.

And sew on...

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Thank you, everyone, for the positive thoughts, prayers and best wishes. I think they are working. John seems a little perkier each day but still fighting off that jaw bone infection and pain and hoping to get that surgery to repair his jaw some day soon. 

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These Iris are beautiful but grow like weeds. I separated them one year and threw them on a compost pile and they grew out of the compost. I now have little patches of them everywhere. They look nice in a vase too.