I Like Thursday # 10 ~ Play

I like playing with the scraps.

These are Half Square Triangles generated by cut-offs from

 This Large BOM Block

That is a perfectly useful 7.5" star block 

made from good fabric.

I decided to make a strip with the other nine HSTs.

I am not sure where they will end up,

maybe on a pieced quilt back, 

maybe in a pillow,

maybe in a little quilt with all the other scraps from this new 

Block of the Month quilt. 

Time will tell.  

These little HSTs were all a uniform size.

All I had to do was trim the dog ears.

I like to use a 1/4" corner ruler and cut off the corners

before I sew.

This makes more uniform size scraps and more accurate piecing for me

that the traditional draw a line, sew, sew again and cut in half method.

I do not like to draw lines on fabric.

I almost always opt to find another way. 

This was my "15 Minutes of Play" for the day.

I got the 15 minute idea from this book,

 15 Minutes of Play by Victoria Findlay Wolfe  

I like to play with the fabric.

Play is a good thing.

This backyard squirrel knows how to play.

Unlike the other squirrels on the ground, this one is very acrobatic.

Squirrel has spent so much time hanging on the bird feeder outside my kitchen window and 

watching me in the window that squirrel now has a name.
At first I was calling him Brownie because he has more brown in his fur than
most of my backyard squirrels,
 but his antics is what really made him stand out from the crowd. 

This is "Cirque du Squirrel."

"Cirq" for short.

Maestro and company spend so much time chattering at Cirq

out the window, that I bought them three little stuffed squirrels.

I think it was a dog toy, but my kitties do not care.

Maestro carries hers around and keeps it handy while she cat naps.

Maestro like to have a toy handy to play with as soon as she wakes up.

Maestro likes to play.

My favorite phone game at the moment is 

Lily's Garden

It is very colorful; the puzzles are addictive;  

there is a build your garden theme

 and it has a better than most story line.

It even has squirrels ... ;) 

Taking time to stop by and see that the 

I Like Thursday Bloggers @ Not Afraid of Color

are playing with today.

Happy Thursday!