Piecing Fishies

After a several month hiatus, I'm finally piecing together a quilt top.  It feels so good to be working on completing a whole quilt instead of a block or two for a sewing bee.  It's even more fun when you're piecing together fish!  They're so cute.  I only have a couple done, but I had fun using a range of fabrics for the fish.  I was also pleased that all of them were made from my scrap bin that is currently overflowing.

The blocks are a good size at 12.5" unfinished.  The background is Kona Fog and I really like the color.  It's a bit of a more subtle blue.  They're not very difficult to make.  The tutorial is here.

Today was even more fun, because for the very first time Little Man and Little Lady were at school at the same time and BB went down for a nap.  I had an entire hour to myself!  It felt luxurious. The funny thing is that I spent that hour cleaning up and organizing my fabric stash.  I very much enjoyed myself as well.  Now that I can find all of my fabric again I'm brainstorming new projects, and thinking of more fun things to make.  I am also completely cutting myself off from buying anymore fabric for a while, because um, I have a lot I need to use, and my scraps bin is bursting at the seems.  It's time for some scrappy quilts around here.