Clean Up and Free For All Friday

Day 26 of Blogtoberfest.

I made a total of 23 library bags for the kindergarten kids.  Took them over to the school yesterday.  Still have more to make.  I think I will do 2 per day.  But first I had to clean up my messy cutting table.  There was no room to work.  As you can see in the photo, I added some bag fabric to my stash.  Yesterday I ran out of thread, so DH took me over to Fabricland.  I found these wonderful fabrics on theit sales table and got about 3.5 metres for less than $10.   What a bargain!  One is a cute little Paddington Bear print.

Here is what my cutting table looks like after I cleaned up.  All of the scraps are in bins, sorted by colour.  I decided to reward myself for all my hard work with a little mindless sewing.  So I am working on my free-for-all blocks this afternoon.  Nothing more relaxing than that!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Free For All on Friday

Day 5 of Blogtoberfest

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I've been working on my 'free-for-all' blocks that I found on Em's Scrapbag.  I had made a few blocks earlier, but couldn't find them until I cleaned up a bit.  I decided to join all of them together, so I can't lose them any more.  Notice I am not putting these on my design wall floor; I am just sewing them together as I do them.  My design has 4.5 in solid blocks alternating with the scrappy blocks.  These solid blocks are from a 5 in charm exchange we had at our Guild last year.  Lots of variety and they make the quilt come together much faster.  

These are called 'Free For All' and it is Friday, so that means it's a Friday Free For All.  I like that.  Fridays are usually kind of boring.  I may have to make 'Friday Free For All' a regular post.   Sounds good?  Or is someone doing that already?

I am reading all over the internet that it is unnecessary to put borders on quilts right now.  A number of years ago a quilt was not finished unless it had borders.  What do you think?  Will I have to put borders on this one?