Sewing, Quilting, Crafting Peas - Week of Aug 3

I am still working on a baby quilt. I have started the machine quilting, but it's been too hot to work on during the day, was it has a fleece backing. I am heading back to the UK for a couple of weeks in September so I really need to get it done before then.

I did pick up a knitting project, so have been working on that the past couple of days.

After doing some organization and purging of my crafting space, I realized that if I persist in keeping small scraps, I need to get to using them, otherwise it's just hoarding, in color coded boxes. So I made a scrappy little wallhanging to add to a long empty wall in our computer room. To give you an idea of the extent of my scrap collection -- it measures a well packed cubic yard. And even after tossing the very narrow strings and any chunks less than 1.5 inches, I still have way too much. I love working with scraps, but it's just uncanny the way they multiply. Even after using a healthy pile for my wallhanging, there's no dent in the pile.

Having now, belatedly grasped how to post photos, I'll throw in a couple finished from last month:

A graduation gift for my niece, hexagaons made from a jelly roll --

and a group quilt I coordinated with women for our church:

The Dress is done 100%. Bridesmaids' blouses and skirts are done (minus the hem on one and I'm going to get that done here in a minute.) DD is working on the bow ties for the groomsman and groom. I"m sure those will be frantically finished at 2pm on Saturday because that's how she rolls. She's even worse at procrastination than I am. My last sewing project is the flower girl bolero which will take me about an hour. I'll bang it out on my serger this afternoon.

I love my serger. I swear it's the best thing I've gotten out of this wedding. (New son in law is not a thing. LOL)

That is one amazing wall hanging, especially as it is made from scraps - it's gorgeous!    It must have taken you forever!  I don't quilt and have never got around to trying, but I love to look at quilts and things like your wall hanging.