Connie: What fun! Some really nice blocks. I have a book called "Scrap Quilt Sensations" by Katharine Guerrier that does a marvelous job of incorporating "orphan" blocks into a scrappy quilts. She does a marvelous job of making one of a kind blocks look like they were designed as part of the quilt. I sympathize with the scrap syndrome. I have so many large pieces of beautiful fabrics and I spend more time playing with the scraps than using the stash. Oh well guess I'll just follow the bliss.
Ok gals, this time I am truly blameless. I have a dear sweet neighbor that is an avid garage saler. He is a bit of a "collector" himself so he totally understands my mania for fabric. He always asks if there is any cotton fabric at any garage estate sale he attends. I think he enjoys seeing the look in their eyes when he asks. Well he couldn't get me on the phone so he went ahead and bought me three large boxes of fabric. This is not just scraps, there are lengths of fabric that are probably 4 to 5 yards long. Almost all at least a fat quarter size. I washed it all yesterday. It took five loads in my large tubed washing machine. That end table in the background is a standard size so that gives you an idea. Honest folks, I'm blameless in this.