I’ve been spending time here and there in my sewing room over the last few weeks, and here’s what I have to show for it.
So happy I bought myself that AccuQuilt. It’s tedious, but somehow less tedious using the die-cuts rather than a rotary cutter and ruler. Is it faster? I’m not sure—it certainly feels it when I pull stacks of 2 1/2” squares off the die all at once.
I’ve been using the 2 1/2” square die which cuts four squares per one layer of fabric; I’ve also used the 2 1/2” strip die to cut my 2 1/2” strips into squares by laying them crosswise to the blades. I’m not doing a ton of those as I’m mostly trying to clear up my scrap bins.
True confessions: in clearing out my scrap bins I did also “off” a lot of scraps that were smaller than I know I’ll use anytime soon. Some got trashed (the really small ones); others got put in a zip-loc bag to eventually make their way to Charlotte’s stack. Since it’ll probably be a few months before I see her face-to-face at a guild meeting again, I may have to make a fast drop-off at her front porch or something so I can get them out of my sewing room.
And those once-overflowing scrap bins? Oh, so nice! (Tomorrow afternoon I am going to make myself work on some of the units for Charlotte’s current scrap mystery quilt. I really need to do some sewing to allow Arthritis Foot to recover from all that standing at my cutting table.)
