4-patches -

As seedlings - LOL - ;))

They all got pressed open -

Some had to be cut by hand because they were almost not big enough -

And others were cut in half -

And layered - print to light and light to print -

Longer ones also got cut in half and layered -

And then they all got laid out on the die -

And run through - again - to sub-cut them into pairs ready to sew -

These got tweaked - so they will join my "crumbs" -

And then I had little piles of matching sets - ready to sew -

Sewed them together -

Pressed a couple of them open and "spiraled" the seam -
A trick I learned from a Billie Lauder book - years ago -

I thought of opening and pressing all of these -

But - since I need an assortment of "onesies" -
And some matching sets of 4 -
I would have had to pin the sets together for later -

So I decided to just leave them strung together -
To save using up my pins -

And fan-folded them on top of each other -

Making nice little piles for my baggie -
That way they are all together in sets -
Until I'm ready to sew them to the next patch in the block -
Then I can snip them apart and press them -

After I bagged them all up -

I pulled out the strips that I had set aside for my OTHER scrap quilt -

This one needs a variety of HST -
In a different size -
And NO matching sets -

Measured the die -
I needed some background white-on-white strips about 3" wide -

So I got out a piece - cut a strip - and sub-cut that into three sections -
Then layered one print right side up - a white strip right side down -
Another print right side up - a second white strip right side down -
A third print right side up - and the third white strip right side down -

And ran it through the die cutter -

Peeled off the "ends" - and had eight piles of HST in sets of three - ready to sew -

Eleanor Burns calls this "smart stacking" -

BOB calls it "common sense" - LOL - ;))

Each one measures 2" and will be joined to a 2" square - later -

This is so additive -

Cut a little -

Sew a little -

Rinse and repeat - LOL - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -