Nine Fat Quarters Hanging on a Tree , ......

Well, this random-looking patchwork throw should have been made with Fat Quarters but the deep blue piece with the cranes, which was the piece I most wanted to use, was a bit undernourished so the other pieces had to be cut down to match.

The nine pieces of equally sized fabric were stacked one on top of the other and all cut at the same time so that the square could be re-assembled in different colour combinations.
The final result is a bit under the size of 9 fat quarters.  I'm still trying to decide what colours to use for the borders.
And if one fat quarter should accidentally ............
(I hope you can guess what song was going through my mind when I was taking this photo.)

Still More Tote Bags

In between other things I don't seem to be able to get away from making tote bags from unused pieces of embroidery, this time some butterflies, a kookaburra and an unused piece from a Batlimore quilt.   All those years I've needed to have a piece of embroidery in my hands when going to various groups has ended up with a stack of interesting smaller embroideries which have never been framed for hanging on the wall - no room left for them anyway. But I find they make most interesting tote bags.  Just simple lined bags, no pockets inside.

I hope the recipients of the bags like them as much as I do.