Starting a new project 01-13-20

How can it be?  I have dozens and dozens of unfinished projects in bags, baskets, boxes and on the wall!  I have always been awed by people who do just one project at a time and either finish it or get rid of it.  Not something I seem to be able to do.  I get the urge to do some cutting or designing or even put something up on the design wall and I just have to do it.  But other things are pressing on my time and I know I cannot spend time creating another project.  This time I rescued some pieces, passed on by someone who was no longer quilting, that have lived on a shelf in my garage for, I suppose, decades.  I ripped out what I suppose were 5" prairie points, pressed them and cut them to 2.5" x 4.75".  All lovely autumn leaf colors (rust, orange, red, gold, purple, even some pink), a lovely selection.  What to put with them in a jelly roll style quilt"  I cut 114 yellow/gold strips and cut those into half.  Now they have moved into a plastic bag while I get back to what I should be doing. 

Autumn Flash  in progress. 

I know it will call to me and I may not be able to resist.  It is one of those projects I cannot picture in my mind.  So the only way to know what it will look like is to sew it together.  Soon, I hope. 

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More discoveries 11-23-19

You know when you have something to do that doesn't excite you very much so you find a zillion other things to do instead?  I do a lot of that in my life and blame it on old age.  Today I was looking for something in the garage and noticed a box sitting on a shelf, sort of behind other things. 

When I thought about it I remembered that it was part of a donation from a lady who was moving and had to downsize her fabric library.   The yardage and a bunch of other stuff went to philanthropy projects, but I saved the triangles so I could "whip up" a quilt to donate.  And I never did.  The fabrics come from the 90s when I was still trying to get my life in some sort of order after my husband died in 1990.

Today I laid out the triangles to see what I have, some piles are just one of a fabric and some are 18 -20.  Only a half dozen reds which are badly needed to cheer things up.  I went through my scraps, but all the reds are bright cherry or tomato.  So, I got out my oldest box of reds to find something from the 1990s, sort of cranberry, I guess. 

If you have been quilting for 30 years or so, you will recognize some of these fabrics.  Quite a few from Jenny Beyer and, from the feel, some from JoAnn.  No green or brown!

I'll cut some triangles from these to mix in with what I have and sit down to sew them together two by two.  Since I didn't pick any colors except the reds I wonder what it will look like sewn together.  Might have to do some sashing or something. Another WIP.  

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