What's in the Baggies in the Bag?

This month the theme in my sewing space to move UFOs forward and use scraps is WITB? - What's in the bag, basket, bin, box? Hopefully I will be able to empty quite a few bags, baskets, bins, boxes too.

One of the recent packages of scraps I received had several different baggies of HST parts. I decided to empty the bags. 

I made 24 Pinwheels that finish at 4.5 inches with the orange and black and orange and white HSTs.  I'm going to put these with the orphan blocks for row quilts/strippies for now. They might even make a nice center medallion for a child's comfort quilt. 

One empty baggie!

I made Broken Dishes Blocks that finish at 6.5 inches. 

I have a box of mostly black and white orphan blocks so these will go there. One of these days I'll dig into the orphanages and make some orphan block quilts. 

Two empty baggies!

And I made some Broken Dishes Blocks that finish at 6 inches. These will go into the box of red, white and blue orphan blocks. 

Three empty baggies!

Normally when I make Broken Dishes blocks they go into the Broken Dishes box with other Broken Dish blocks of all sizes. 

Another baggie had little HST parts. I made them into QSTs (aka Hourglass) blocks. 

Four empty baggies! 

And the bigger baggie that held all those baggies in now empty too so...

Five empty baggies!

The little QSTs went into the box with all the other QSTs I've been making since 2021. 

There's a Lone Star in that box too. 

Someday that Lone Star will be the center of a quilt surrounded by all those QSTs and inspired by...

...this vintage quilt. 

Competition Quilt. about 1895. hand pieced cotton, silk, linen; hand quilted; machine stitched backing. Neusteter Textile Collection: Gift of Guido Goldman. 2008.406.

(Picture from Denver Art Museum)

I just love love love to infinity this quilt and decided I would make something similar but use my wonky hourglass blocks instead of HSTs. I'm not squaring up my Hourglass blocks (because I don't like to square up) so I will just make "made fabric" out of them for the borders and not worry so much about points matching up. Mine is definitely NOT going to be a competition quilt like the original. 

And sew on...

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The rain has gone for a while. The weather is beautiful again (sunny and 65 degrees here in Iowa at 2:40 pm on 11/9). I have started collecting seeds Zinnias, Tithonia, Sunflower, Datura and Four O'clocks. 

I've also been readying some areas for winter sowing some seeds probably in late November. 

And sow on...