I completely forgot about posting a second organizing Challenge in October!

That figures, since I’m usually having trouble even figuring out what day it is. So we’ll just carry on like it’s all OK, because it really is!

Our last challenge was to deal with an old UFO. I dug out my Wild 9-Patch Quilt, and made 13 more blocks for it. I also have about 40 more blocks ready to leader/ender as I’m working on other stuff, so hopefully, it’ll get done sometime soon. I’m not in a huge rush, since I don’t have time to quilt it for awhile, anyway, so I’ll just enjoy the process. Did you find an old UFO to deal with? How did you do on it?

And now it’s time for another challenge, so what are we doing this time?

Well, I went back to the cards, and this is what came out:

This is a huge ongoing thing for me, and I’ve made good progress this year, but my goal is to have my scraps down to only one (large) bin, and have everything else either used up, gone, or processed into my pre-cut drawers and containers. So I still have a long way to go, and I’ll be working on this for awhile.

I had to stop doing the pre-cut processing for awhile, since I couldn’t run a rotary cutter, but I’m back to being able to use it for a little bit at a time, so if I just give it a few minutes a day, I think I can handle it and make some more progress. I also bagged up a bunch and gave them away, and I may do that again.

How about you? Are your scraps still out of control? Were they good, and then as you work, they kinda got out of hand again? It’s a good idea to revisit this task every now and then, just to keep them under control. I used to do it for at least 30 minutes a week, but had to take a forced break — I’m ready to add it back in to my schedule.

Let’s do it! Besides, it’s fun to play in the scraps (I usually end up starting a new quilt)!