Got a couple things to photo-worthiness today. I also had a quite productive trip to Hancock Fabrics, where every item I purchased was 50% + 15% off. Of course, with one of those being a roll of batting, the grand total was fairly impressive. As the rest of the order involved individual zippers, the length of the receipt was also impressive. The cashier wasn't totally impressed, as it was a couple inches shorter than she was. She has evidently had two taller than she was before. It is also fairly impressive how not one employee stopped to help me lift the batting of the top shelf, but customers went out of their way to help. Why are people more considerate of others on their free time than when we are getting paid to be helpful? One elderly man literally ran across the parking lot to open my car door for me. When I got home, I got to work, I finished enough string blocks for a quilt. And I cut sashing and set squares. I laid is out all the blocks since I worked on them in several batches so the same batch of fabrics wasn't all in the same section of the quilt. I grabbed the first pile and got ready to sew, and discovered that oops... the strips were 1/2" too short. And as I had chosen to use a brown fabric that was left over from the backing of a different quilt, I didn't have enough to re-cut 2" strips, but I managed to squeeze out enough 1 1/2" strips to make it work. I only had to piece 10 of them out of the original 2" strips, and I am left with these:

Since I have a similar batch of brown pieces from an exchange a couple years ago already in the drawer, I think I need to some kind of project involving 5 1/2" or 7 1/2" blocks that can be set with brown... Here is what it turned out put together.

I also used every last safety pin to get this one basted. Making 6 the most quilts I have EVER had ready to quilt at one time. And I am pretty sure that unless they were all miniatures that is the max my safety pin stash will accommodate

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