Table Scraps love for February... where or when

Welcome to my sewing round up for the week!

 This is my "Table Scraps Challenge" piece for February. Thank you to Joy for issuing the challenge to keep us sewing from the treasure that a scrap box provides! She suggested "improv" and that's how I usually work...

Using my box of turquoise scraps and squares left from making this really improv piece...

 in series with last month's red challlenge improv piece

not joined together... at the moment I'm not sure if I want to make a larger art piece from three colors or have all these finished alone. So to leave my options open, I am not finishing the turquoise one as table scraps. I had some leftover squares from digging through the  scrap bin though and so I made this, spur of the moment, and for Valentines day added in a heart from fusible scraps

quilted it and used gold bugle beads around the appliqued heart. It counts as improvisational as I didn't plan it, just sewed pretty squares, then used batik strips to finish it off, and impulsively fused on a heart

and because it's meant to cover a bedside table, I did a machine binding (sew to the wrong side, then top stitch to the front of the quilt by machine. 

this one will have to wait a bit to be finished, but it's becoming a favorite as I look at it on the design wall. My series of improv works will all have off the cuff geese, scrap blocks, some kind of squares. This one got applique flowers from the fusible scrap box. The red repeats across the quilt and is complimentary to turquoise or green blue. 

I worked very hard on my stay at home Round Robin but don't feel comfortable sharing too much on it yet. 

The current prompt is to include a row of shoofly blocks. I googled them and looked at lots and decided the elements I would include would be a center square, with my tropical prints, and little black triangles and if it all works out they will be like postcards around glamingo

 

for today's music of love, in February...one of the most romantic songs... where or when...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-ndV1Tgino&list=PLpi_Ckd6ADLyG-2mAeCN0qjyBTcLqs6l2&index=71

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