A Little Sewing, A LOT of Cutting

I haven't actually sewn that much this week. I did get two quilts assembled. I only took pics while they were on the design wall. 

I had planned on adding a couple borders to this one, but then I stopped and thought about what size it was already. It's already a large twin-full sized quilt. If I add the borders I was planning, it will be queen sized, and I don't need a queen sized quilt in these colors. So, after quilting I'll just add a red binding and call it done.

This quilt is exactly the same size, but for some reason I never planned on putting borders on this one. Now both of these quilts are assembled and stuck into the quilt closet waiting for their turn in the quilting queue. 

So what was I cutting all week? I cut out one baby quilt, and I've got another one half cut out, I should finish cutting that one tomorrow. I also cut out 400 luggage tags from repurposed denim pants. I've got the fronts and backs of the tags cut, as well as the interfacing, but I still need to cut the clear vinyl. I really love upcycling old clothes into totally different things, extending the life of the fabric in a new purpose. 

I thought 400 luggage tags would make a bigger dent in the denim scraps than it did, but that's OK, because I have other denim projects planned. I'd really like to get a lot of that busted this year. No one has been giving me any denim lately, and neither DH nor I wear jeans, so it would be a great time to bust it all, and not collect any more of it. I have a lot more printed denim than I remembered having, and so I'll have to give some thought about how to use that. Most of my printed denim is yardage, so I could always opt for reusable grocery bags.