BRRRR.... Brown!

I am working on sewing the binding of the first Nightingale quilt, but I have to do that during the day, because as I get older it's harder to see hand sewing black fabric with black thread. I needed to be thinking about what I would do next.

Sitting in my studio looking at my stash and the big bins full of scraps, I thought, "What have I been neglecting? What have I been avoiding?" The answer was Brown. It isn't my favorite color, but sometimes  it's a good thing to get out of your comfort zone.

So I gathered up my brown fabrics from the scrap bins and the leftover stuff from the big pins and piled it all on my worktable.

Then I ironed it all.

Then I paired it all up, before I started to cut triangles.

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I found some fat quarters of Charley Harper fabrics and included that in my slabs. I loved this little cat!

Here are seventy triangles. I don't know what I will do with them yet, but cutting these triangles is a good way to reduce the stuff in the scrap bins.