Half Dressed

Remember when I set out to make a fabric garland with my go! baby cutter and these plentiful scraps?

Weeeell.... I've got good news and bad news.

The good news is that I think the garland turned out pretty. I cut many, many, many circles and set pairs back to back with wrong sides together.  Then, I chain pieced them in long strings right down the center of the circles with little bits of just-thread for spacing. 

See, they rotate this way and that in our (totally real) Christmas tree.  We like!

The bad news is two-fold.  One, if you let your thread garland tangle, really bad things can happen.  Try untwisting tangled thread!  Wait, you probably have tried before. So, yeah, you know how that goes. 

Two, I um... I'm stopping there. We even have a Christmas party tonight, but I am DONE with cutting little scrappy circles.  I am so done, in fact, that last night I woke in the middle of the night thinking very clear ideas for a new scrap-quilt-along, kind of like Bottled Rainbows, but with a totally new design and approach.  You see, cutting little circles was not all that fulfilling.  Apparently I yearn to actually sew my scraps together.  Go figure.

Christmas is a season not all that friendly to works-in-progress.  It seems we buy gifts for our entire family or stay home.  Make Christmas goodies for all our neighbors or just eat them ourselves.  Decorate with a tree and lights and the whole shebang or bah-humbug the festivities with reserve.  Well, this time I'm going to live it up at half dressed.  My tree shows promise, y'all.  Next year, I'll finish the garland.