Happy New Year!

 

And here's hoping 2024 is kinder than 2023.

Gobble gobble!

 To all my readers who celebrate -

To everyone else - have the best Thursday ever!

(And trust me to be someone who would do an "I'm back" post just before wandering off for an extended visit with family.  I swear I'll do better soon!)

Okay, lets see if I can remember how to work this thing...

 I didn't mean to wander off for quite so long.  Stuff happens and then more stuff, and then I kept thinking "oh, I'll need to make a long blog post to catch up" and that seemed too exhausting to even start...

So.

I'm just going to pretend I've been here all along.

I've had a great yen to make Bonnie Hunter's Scrappy Trips quilts for a long time, and when Cathy made hers using 2" strips rather than 2.5" strips, I was sold!

I started cutting 2" strips at lengths of a smidgen more than 12", and then had a sudden inspiration.  There's another quilt I want to make using a lot of 2" squares sewn in strips - Quilted Twins Dots and Dashes.  Here's the picture from their website:

The block needs strips consisting of 5, 7, and 9 squares sewed together, and the 6-square strips I was already cutting for Scrappy Trips would give me a lovely jumpstart. 

 I started cutting longer strips for sewing into strata, cutting off the 6 units I needed for my scrappy trips block, and then cutting more 2" units to use toward Dots and Dashes.

Sometimes I even get a little bonus of 2 or 3 square offcuts.

Next thing I knew, I had 16 Dots and Dashes blocks assembled.

It's like leader/enders on steroids...