New Year Projects

I've been on a bit of an organizational spree lately.  There was the pantry, then the spice cabinet.  Yesterday was the closet in the master bedroom.  This usually happens to me around this time of year.  Obviously the sewing room could not be left out of all the fun.  

 I had just finished making new nine patches in red for this year's 2 inch rainbow scrap project when I realized that I already had lots of leftover nine patches from last year.   So I started by sorting those.  Many of them were monochromatic.  They will all be put to good use with no problem.

 But then there were all these mixed color blocks.  I think that there are enough here for a quilt.  I just need to decide on setting.  I'm thinking two solidish colors to tie it all together a bit.  Maybe red and blue?  I could go with red and green and call it a Christmas quilt.

There were also these partial blocks which I wanted to use for something interesting.  

I decided to reconfigure them into the beginnings of a Double Irish Chain.  

 I also made it out to the Hundred Acre Hollows at the beginning of the week to help train some new people to monitor the camera traps.  It had fallen off of the bottom of my priority list lately.
School is finally back in session again and I'm afraid that the sewing will slow considerably.  It will be as big of an adjustment to me as to the kids to have to do work again.