Making something out of nothing

Yesterday I had a little time before Al and I headed to Jenn's house to help pass out candy for Halloween. There were a couple of blocks that needed finishing up and one that needed applique pieces basted to it so that I could hand stitch them down on our way to Traverse City... it takes us about an hour. Usually I grab some hand sewing so that I'm not bored in the car.

 

 

Well, finished up preparing that and still had some time to spare. I was looking at this pile of trash and thought... wonder if I could make something from that... kind of a challenge to myself.

 

So I started a crazy quilt block... just adding one piece next to another and another (even putting in some of the selvages) until I had a nice big piece.

 

Trimmed it down to an 8-1/2" square.

 

Well, now what? Thought about putting into my box of orphan blocks (yes, I have a box of those) but I still had time before we were leaving so I decided it would make a cute mug rug for my sewing room.

 

I kind of have a Dr. Seuss theme going in there... a Dr. Seuss quilt my sister made me... a matching pillow my sister made ... a Dr. Seuss picture frame my sister bought me (huh, seems to be a theme here too :).. a bunch of Dr. Seuss books and stuffed animals..  YUP, needed a matching mug rug.

 

I dug through my scraps of batting (yes, I save all of those too).

 

 

 And dug through my leftover panel pieces to come up with a backing piece (looks like a picture of Al and I waiting for the kids to visit)...

 

Gave it a quick quilting...

Then dug through my leftover binding pieces (got a box of those too)...

 

and ended up with this:

 

 Stitched the binding down on the way to Jenn's house......

 

SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING :)

 

And here's the funniest part. Al saw it and said "you're not giving that away, are you?.. It's too nice".

Sometimes I could just kiss that man!