Tame Your Stash in 2024 - 5" Blocks 

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Have you tried using a larger centre square and framing it with 2 1/2" strips or squares? Have you seen potato chip blocks? Have you seen 5"×10" blocks/patches and patterns? How about log cabin? Or 1/4 log cabin, courthouse steps. Have you done trip around the world blocks, or irish chain. You can do railfence with 2 bars or 3 from jelly roll strips, or more, or cut large triangles from strip sets. Do you think about leaders and enders for bonus quilts and thread saving? So many beauties, traditional, modern, free patterns or not. How many small gifts do you need to give away, for riends?, that can use up bits and pieces. How about dark and light contrasts in 4 patches, to add together for bigger pieces to use in whatever. Put ×4, 4 patches into a square 8×8, ×4, do that again with the larger pieces and you may have a baby quilt, 16 × 16 or so, on the bonus side? Placemats, mug rugs, bowl covers, bags and boxes in a variety of sizes, pincushions, try 6 equal squares, 2 1/2" or 3", ×10, 5" squares plus interfacing/stiffener make a good bits bowl or threads bin? use odd shapes for baby toys? Do a big quilt, then a few little things to keep the satisfaction of getting things Done! going. If the big project gets tedious or annoying, do a small thing to get sewing again, then get on with it. Or just do a few blocks per day? Do you have design boards, like Lori Holt? Use batting and strip stash to make some, with thick cardboard or craft board, to stack cut pieces on, ready to sew? If you need a design wall? Tack up a piece of batting, or put it over a spare curtain rod, then take it down with the blocks on it, or sewn into a top for it to be used in. Batting that is too big can have bits cut off for smaller things. Do you havea wip wednesday. Or another day? Have FUN, you don't have to do everything at once. I's not rocket science, if you lop off a few points, nobody will die.

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