.....and then there were crumbs ~

Having a goal is a good thing here in my room.  A couple of years ago, I was in a workshop taught by a fabulous teacher, Sue Welton, who loves diddling in thrift store finds with her special delight being men's shirts.  Blogged about here at Quilters' Guild Acadienne.

Friends and I collected shirts for a couple of seasons and shared pieces parts of each shirt with each other.  It was a great way to share so not too much of the same shirt showed up in each of our quilts.

Not having a good plan, I hung on to my shirt stash about as long as I could but finally realized there was a goal niggling in the back of my head - get rid of that stack of shirts since the space was needed  for other fabrics.  Those shirts had value so they couldn't be given away!  But,  I was growing tired of pushing them around from one fraction of the shelf to another. 

I started depleting the shirt stash with the challenge thrown out by The Root Connection....you can read about that quilt here.   I even used the shirting to piece the backing and still had leftovers.  There was nothing left to do but to start another quilt.  Luck be with me, I found this little jewel of a pattern at The Quilting Digest.  My shirts worked wonderfully in each paper pieced log of this log cabin.





What was left?  I filled a little zip bag with the scraps crumbs and along with the printed pattern  tossed it as one would a bridal bouquet out in the group of quilters at our Thursday sew day.  Life is soooooo  good.