Long lost blocks?

On Thursday I deep dived into some drawers in my sewing room. I found some treasures, some things to part with when normal life resume and also some stuff for the bin. Among the findings were piles of blocks from swaps or bees I did years ago. In the days of Flicker, I used to join in about everything that was going on so I ended up with lots of different blocks that I sadly stashed away for "later". I also found a big pile (72 of them) of simple blue blocks made of 4 x 2.5' strips and a stash of strips to make even more blocks. 

Using up the remaining strips yielded 15 additional blocks. With 87 blocks in my hand, making 2 tops sounded like a better option. I settled on a 7x7 layout for each, which meant I needed 98 blocks in total. Another dive, in my scrap box this time and I retrieved the left-over strips from my Scrappy Trip Around the World finished last year to make the missing blocks and very quickly the pile was big enough to be assembled into quilt tops

The first one I finished used all blue blocks and will be given out as a birthday present in the next few weeks hopefully.

As for the second one, I added a little rainbow 🌈 in the blue sky  The scrappy trip quilt was made with rainbow colours so I couldn't resist mixing things up a little for the second top.

After the 2 tops were sewn, I found 2 left over blocks on my desk, I made 28 extra blocks instead of 26! 
I think those blue blocks date from over 10 years ago, I believe I won them at a raffle at a Sewing Night. The 72 blocks and strips went from being long forgotten until last Thursday to being 2 new quilt tops by Sunday 🙂 Now I soon need to get my frame out as I have 5 tops ready for quilting.

Linking to Monday Design Wall,  Wednesday Wait Loss, Midweek Makers,  Needle and Thread Thursday

Celine