As mentioned previously – I have two Leader/Ender projects that are basically in top assembly stage. Which means they are no longer good for L/E projects and I needed something new.

As crazy as it is, I’ve long wanted to make a postage stamp quilt. For the uninitiated – a postage stamp quilt is a scrap quilt made with very small squares – traditionally 1.5 inches unfinished (the size you cut your squares), which means they are 1 inch finished (when sewn together). So each scrap is about the size of a stamp!

Now… I’m not totally crazy – 1.5″ squares can be quite fussy to work with. So I decided my postage stamps would be 2″ – or 1.5″ finished. (Which is apparently a tack a lot of modern quilters take with their postage stamp quilts).

For the last several months both mom and I have been cutting 2″ squares from our leftovers.

I started using them as L/Es back in Yule-y.

I’m collecting the two patches in this giant ziploc, because if my math is correct, I’m going to need a lot of them. For a 50″ lap quilt – it’s over 1,000 squares. (And I’m thinking of going bigger than that!)

I think this is going to be a long-term L/E project. That’s just fine with me. I think it’s going to be amazing when I’m done.