Joyfully squaring up my blocks!       

  It seems like I only get up to the sewing room in the late evening, but last night, I was pretty productive.  I don't know about you, but I just can't throw away the little triangles that are left over when you are making a flying geese unit or other similar units.  I have always saved them, sewed them together and squared them up.  I have lots of 1 1/2 inch blocks.  The squaring-up part has always been so tedious on the small ones.

            At the AQS show in Grand Rapids Michigan, I saw a demo of this neat ruler called Bloc Loc.  http://www.blocloc.com/  There is a groove that stops on the seam and keeps the block square as you are trimming.
They had one that was 2 1/2 inch square that works great for the small 'waste' squares.


You can see the line where the printing stops that is the part which will "Loc" on the seam.

After you cut 2 sides, you slide the ruler along the seam and line it up to cut the other 2 sides.









 It is a true joy to square up these squares now.  Last night I sewed and trimmed all the leftovers from the 3 'lasanga' quilts (Also called 1600" quilts) I have made over the last few weeks!

 Now, What am I going to do with all these Squares? ? ?