Scraps Be Gone

I don't have a very good explanation of how this happened. The last thing I remember Friday (February 6) is me, kinda pacing, trying to land on something for the day. With unexpected suddenness, and the vision of a fabric raptor, I spied ziploc bags, in ziploc bags, on top of ziploc bags....I locked my wings and dove straight into them! They had to go!

To be frank, I don't have lots of scraps. In fact most of what I consider my "stash" would be someone else's scraps...most of it being fat quarters or smaller.

But thanks to all the scrap savers out there, most notably, Amanda Jean at CrazyMomQuilts, and Carla at LollyQuiltz (and her "free" quilts), I save bits. And put them in ziploc bags, loosely by color. And then, because all my fabric is in a tub, I am constantly pulling them out, to get to something else, so all the littles go into a big ziploc. Then there are the unfinished projects, each to it's own ziploc...well, I think you get the picture.

It isn't as if I didn't have other plans for the weekend.  Nice, tidy, quilt-in-the-dining-room kind of plans...

But as everyone knows:  scrappy business is messy business!

Into the vortex of this veritable "scrap-nado" I spun!

Round and round I went, log cabin style, letting the scrap volume of each color loosely determine the width of it's respective "log".

Working my way out in rainbow order...

A "ROYGIV" something! Not even on my radar, much less a to-do list...seriously, this project somehow made me make it.....

And it has been really, really fun it that aspect too...the intensity of having it to do, even though it wasn't anything I even remotely planned. I was head down for three days...the guys just stayed out of the way...

At the end of each day, it was folded up and the scraps put away, in the tub, until the morrow, when it all came out again,

I took a couple days breather, midweek, after the orange went on.

Finishing the last round of red on Saturday and Sunday.

I foresee another round of black and white prints, or maybe a b/w gingham :) Some white or other solid to bring it up to a good throw size.  But for now, the top is at rest, and I can get back to my "regularly scheduled" and much needed HST therapy!!!

Ahhhh!

Appropriately enough, I happened upon the linky party Scraptastic Tuesday, at Mrs.Sew and Sow, with only one day left!
So we will link this baby up just under the wire!  Yay!!!

(I even got the button right!!!!)

Also linking up this Wednesday with Sew Fresh Quilts