Hope's Journey - Ships at Sea

It's settling-back-down-to-normal-day after the holiday, and I'm busy again with Hope's Journey.  

This is the small project described in Chapter 1, a mat named 'Ships at Sea.'  Continuing with the voyaging theme of the chapter, the mat is made up of Lost Ship blocks in indigo blues.  When cutting, each large triangle becomes two blocks  --  so the eight triangles that were cut for the original project resulted in sixteen blocks in a 4 x 4 set.

I opted to use the cutting dimensions for the larger-size blocks for my version of 'Ships at Sea.' Some stash rummaging yielded a decent-size piece of light background, and some odds and ends of teal/aqua blues.  Hmm, and  how about if I try to use up ALL those teal scraps and bits?!  So I cut the first eight pairs, and still had plenty of both the background and the teals … so I cut more … and more … and more. (And remember that I will actually be creating double the number of blocks I've cut). 

And before we know it, instead of a small mat my project has mushroomed into a lap-size donation quilt.  Back when I was working in the business world, this was referred to as 'scope creep.'  I did eventually use up all of the background, but (as we knew would be the case) plenty of TEAL scraps still remain.  I'll get the rest of my project figured out -- borders, back, binding -- and then finally chop down the remaining teal scraps into squares, strips and strings.  I'm TAMING THE TEAL!

Pop over HERE and see the beautiful work Carol has done for Hope's Journey this week.  And if you have this book and would like some travel companions, please sew along us on Wednesdays!

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