a little progress, a little loot

I'm still a little behind on the quilt-along. I've got all my strips sewn, and some blocks cut. I'm hoping I can at least get all the blocks cut this weekend. Sadly, some of my strips were just a tad bit too short, so I won't be able to get two 10.5" blocks from some of the sets. But there aren't too many, I think those blocks will go nicely on a pieced back.



I've also got my gifties all packaged up and ready to ship out this afternoon. Whoop!



I found some super pretty toile fabric at Value Village last night ($5!). It's not full width, because it's been sewn into a valance (but apparently never used, because there were still straight pins in it!) Check it out...



It's a beautiful light robin's egg blue, with brown birds and botanicals. The piece I have is about 24" by 3 yards. I think it would be a beautiful skirt (if I ever wore skirts!), or maybe I can use it to recover some pillows... But honestly, my first thought when I saw it was that it would be perfect to put in one of those big embroidery hoops to hang up as a decoration! Heck, the repeat is so big on this, I could probably use it for several of them. Hmmm...