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 -
