Making binding, cutting flannel, and pulling weeds

I had a few strips of this red and white striped fabric I want to use for the binding on the red and white zig zag quilt.

Three strips were only 2" wide; I cut my bindings 3 inches wide. Here is my solution. I sewed the stripe strip on to a white stripe of fabric.

I pressed the seam open

Trimmed the strip to 3 inches

Joined the strip with a strip of 3-inch fabric at each end. I don't want to have that joining seam in a corner. It would be harder to get a nice, mitered corner with the extra bulk.

Flip the binding to the other side and you would never know the binding was pieced.

I still didn't have enough of the striped fabric so I added a couple pieces of the red polka dot fabric.

A woman I work with asked for two lap sized flannel quilts in blue and cream. I just happen to have the fabric on hand. I bought this flannel last fall when Hancock's of Paducah had it on sale for a ridiculously great price. I got cut some strips

Then I started sewing some blocks. She doesn't want them exactly the same so I thought I would do a log cabin for one and courthouse steps for the other. The courthouse step blocks go together much faster. These blocks will finish around 15 inches.

I did go outside for about a half hour to pull thistle. One plant had matured and had gone to seed. I will be fighting with those next year. I ended up pulling up 47 plants of different sizes.