Strips and strings

After a trip to Idaho last weekend, mom sent me home with a big bag of strips and strings. Why did I agree to take them again??? But I did. Some of them are really awesome fabrics. There was this grey and blue batik that was pretty amazing, Some were special. Some just make me wonder, "now how did these end up here???" Like the frogs. There is probably close to a yard of this huge print of frogs, kind of a tropical print cut into a range of strips from 1" to 1.75." Why? This is my question. Why would you cut so many skinny strips of something there must have been a purpose at some point, and then not use it??? One night this week, I got them sorted and pulled out all the 1.5"+ strips for log cabin blocks as well as the strings and 1.5" strips of the more bright juvenile prints. I now have enough blocks for an all-pink juvenile log cabin quilt and blocks a second "boy" log cabin done. I am also closer to a 2nd "girl-y" log cabin, but I think doing all the pink blocks left me a couple strips short on a handful of the blocks. I am also caught up on the juvenile string blocks. (I have a set using boy fabrics with blue in the center and a set using girl fabrics with pink and purple centers.) This evening I was working on the "grown up" string blocks. When I started these I chose to do 8.5" blocks. What was I thinking? The difference in number of strings between a 6" and an 8" block is crazy. But I have all the blocks started that I think I need for a quilt. I think. I will see how big it looks when these are finished. They are getting so close, but I am soooo dead. So tomorrow? I should be getting ready for the week, but I may sew instead. I have these blocks to finish and then I'll have two log cabins and one string top to put together. And the bag of strings from Mom doesn't look like I have taken anything out of it... And that is not even mentioning the 1.5" strip drawer. It is full. Ok, bursting. I also have been pressing/trimming/sewing triangles together that were left over from various projects. They work great in between things, when you don't want to stop and clip your threads and you want to take everything you've sewn to the ironing board. It is amazing how much you get sewn when you just sew that little extra seam between things. I am kind of impressed with how much I have been getting accomplished, though it doesn't always look like it. There are I think 2-3 quilts waiting to have binding hand sewn down. 5 basted and waiting for quilting (thinking about a quilting weekend on the long weekend). 1 waiting for to be sandwiched (I just MIGHT have enough safety pins left over after basting the other 5? It is a small quilt...) And now blocks done for these ones. If I keep knocking quilts out out of the scrap bins, will I eventually be able to close the lids??? I know that is a crazy goal. The roommate hasn't been buying fabric for too many scrub tops lately, so I have a chance to make a little progress, as long as I don't do crazy things like accept "gifts" of bags of scraps.