Log cabin quilt top, weeding and more

Saturday I decided to work on a project for myself. I got out the box of strips for a log cabin streaks of lighting quilt. I was going to change tasks every couple hours and not just work on making blocks, but I couldn't stop! I had gone thru my stash to find blue striped fabric. What I had were less than a yard pieces. I also used a gray and white striped fabric. Here is how far I have gotten. I was nice to have something on the design wall.

I used up all the narrow blue and white stripe, all the gray and white stripe, and the blue ticking. Yikes! I even pieced together the small bits to make pieces big enough to use.

Sunday I started out weeding. It had been 4 weeks since I weeded the small bed with the big mugo pine and three weeks since I weeded the large center bed. I needed to clean up the creeping charley that was working its way between the rock edging and dig out the thistle that had rooted.

I weeded for at least 2 1/2 hours and had to quit because it was raining too hard. It had been sprinkling for about an hour, but then it started to rain much harder. I went back out around 5:30 and worked for another hour to get both beds done. I pulled 10 gallons of weeds!

Between weeding sessions I finished sewing five log cabin blocks. I was running out of strips so it was time to dig thru the stash again to see if there was anything I missed that I could use. The fabric storage room needed straightened up badly and the twin beds in the guest room needed cleared off so I spent a couple hours straightening up while I looked for blue striped fabric. I moved some piles around on the shelves and made room for the Harley t-shirts that were piled up on one of the beds. So one shelf is the t-shirts as well as the box on the bottom shelf.

I put things away that were piled on the table I have in the fabric storage room.  I found two 4 1/2 strips of that ticking stripe so I cut those in half - I had cut my strips at 2 1/4 wide - so that was a good find! Then there was the soft blue with thin stripes in yellow and red that will work.   I had already cut the piece on the left.

Then I came across the piece on the left. It is not much, but it will work. The piece on the right I had cut 3" wide pieces for the binding, but I have enought I could cut log strips. My plan is just to make blocks until I run out of fabric and that is how big the quilt will be.

I mended the holes in some socks then cut and put hems in this towel fabric I found while I was straighting up the fabric storage room. The one piece is small so I will use it for a pressing cloth. This has been laying around for years and it took less than a half hour to hem. Geeze! LOL!!

I made a pot of soup which rounded out a busy two days.