Design Wall Monday

Since my grand plan for April is focused on new t-shirts for myself. 

 I was contemplating (procrastinating) on how to perfect the fit of my shirt 

and decided to squeeze in some piecing time.

After all, when I get into full blown t-shirt mode, 

there will be no sewing anything else.

You understand that focus thing, right?!?

I don't really have anything going at the moment so I pulled out my tumbler leaders/enders bin.

I gave my progress the once over and remembered someone said 

they were doing a border with their darks.

So I got out my seam ripper,

made myself a little add on room and got busy.

I needed more variety so I got out a stack of I want it gone fabric and started cutting.

In the process of cutting, I added lots more pieces to my string bin.

That's a good thing.

I also learned just how sharp those blades are in the dies.

That wasn't a good thing.

I got a bit more life out of this cutting mat 

and then I heard it snap.

It's now waiting for the garbage man to take it to it's new home.

Thank goodness I had another one to use.

I need to add a new one to my shopping list.

When I took my bins in to put them away,

I had to sit down and sew just for a little while.

I now have a nice long string of tumbler pairs to press. 

I love a good leader/ender project gone awry. 

Next up at the Go cutter is this pile of I want it gone fabrics.

What will they become???

I probably will cut tumblers from some of them

and I have an apple core die that needs to be used again

and of course, I will create more strings.

What's on your design wall? I'm headed to Patchwork Times 

this morning to see what others are working on.