Waste Not, Want Not

This year, my Thimbleberries Club, for those of us who are not doing this year's projects, came up with two alternate block of the month ideas.  There's a calendar block series (I don't have the book, so I didn't pick that one) and there's the very first block of the month project Lynette Jensen designed.  I started Thimbleberries Club a couple block-of-the-month years later, and I always wanted to do that first one.  I've even found and bought those original patterns but I didn't do anything with them.  And then it was all reprinted in a book--which I also bought.  So I figured now was the time to get around to doing it.  And each month, if we've completed the month's block, we'll get a ticket for the door prize drawing.  I like incentives!

I still have a pretty hefty stash of Thimbleberries scraps, so I decided I will work from my scrap drawer in completing the quilt this year.  I got started today with the January block:

And then I decided I didn't really want to end up doing the February block AFTER Valentine's Day, and since I already had everything out . . .

I made the February block.  Now you know, I think, that I often use the scraps from making flying geese blocks to make tiny half square triangle blocks, right?  So I put my tiny half square triangle blocks together--one ones I made from the January block leftovers--and added a little applique . . .

and I ended up with a really cute mug mat.  I just wish I had leftovers from the February block so I could make a mug mat for next month.  I guess I'll just keep it in mind in case I end up with leftovers from other projects.