Ten Kilos of Stuff

First, my white crepe myrtle has started flowering!

 

Some time late last year, I was offered "some fabric". The offer was made so long ago that I don't remember if the idea was that it could be useful for donation quilts, or if the person offering thought I might want it for myself. I also don't remember where it had come from or how it came to be available.

Then the omicron wave arrived, and the person who had the fabric also had covid, and I was staying away from people, so the fabric was forgotten about. But this week I finally arranged to collect it.

It turned out to be a large polypropylene bag, full of nearly 10kg of stuff. There are some books, two pre-cut quilt kits, several half-made projects, and quite a lot of fabric.

This kit tempted me to dive in straight away:

The original owner had started working on it. On the left-hand side under the pattern, there a bunch of scrunched-up sewn components. Here they are after I untangled and pressed them:

They are all there, although I haven't measured them yet. I think the original owner had some problems with their machine, as some of the seams are a bit dodgy.

They had only made a couple of the next component, so that's what I've started working on:

Joining the black and ecru quarter-square triangles, then adding a stripy trapezium, to make 48 of the next component. After this I will be ready to assemble blocks.

My thinking is that rather than make up the whole kit into one quilt, I will use the components to make 2 or 3 smaller donation quilts. We'll see how that goes...