Makes you wonder

After reading my last post--in which I was lamenting the general chaos in my dining room and resolving to get things put away--you may wonder what in the world is going on in my brain when you see these pictures!  I know, I know.  I put away four things and then took out about a hundred!

It all started last Friday when I went to Jo-ann's armed with a coupon and determined to score some of that new Denyse Schmidt fabric.  (A previous visit to another Jo-ann's was unfruitful.)  And I was disappointed again.  This store had one bolt of the DS Quilts line--one!  And it was a navy blue print!  Really, I didn't need the fabric.  I don't have any immediate plans for it; I just wanted to see it in person.  Consider it money saved.  But then--then! I wandered over to the quilting tools section and found the Dresden Plate tool--and with my coupon, it only cost about six bucks.

Enter the scraps/stash!

I just started cutting blades.  Some are 3.5", the larger ones are 6".  I don't have a vision for what these are going to become--maybe a table runner, a quilt.  It depends on how many plates I end up with.

So far I have eight smaller ones completed.

And I have a little more cutting to do before I start in on the larger plates.

I just love playing around with all the colors and fabrics--and the kids wanted to play with them, too!