| I raided the string bin for neutral strings, then chopped into rough 5" strips. I also cut off some selvages as the cream stash was handy and used some uglies up. |
Pieced onto 4 1/4" strips of paper: not ideal as it was quite heavy paper, but it did the job. I used strips from 2 1/2 to 3/4".
My Daughter in law happened to come over and got rather excited about the peeling process! She had not seen this before, so we both worked on the papers for an hour, then I finished them the next day. Help was gratefully received! I recon I have enough for three borders for king size quilts! Each strip is about 11"; pressing and trimming at a later date, as I could cut them in half for 2" sashing too. 
I also made some pieced squares with the larger crumbs as I was going. I can use these as centres in a charity quilt.
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Still plugging away with the 3" finished broken dishes blocks as leaders and enders. I have sewn a lot into sets of four as I keep loosing the bits if they hang around on the sewing table too long between being needed. Much more user friendly. I have quite a pile now. I spin the seams as they come off the machine, but don't iron. These need a lot of accuracy: as they are so small there is no wriggle room.
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This weekend I am working on the Allietare blocks, tricky little things to get the points to meet! Taking it slowly. The blue is my 'red' from Bonnie's design.
A few more geese were needed for accuracy practice.
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I was all sewed out in the middle of the week: I found some short lengths of yarn, a couple of metres each (I am not a hoarder!) and made a scrumble, very therapeutic.
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Other evenings have been spent ironing blocks and ironing blocks and ironing blocks......
....these are done
and these are done.
About the same to go!
I put the mini ironing board and iron on my lap on top of a cushion in front of the TV, I don't feel its such a terrible chore then.
