Snowy Scrappy Day

Due to the weather, for only the second time in 22 years, my work site is closed today.  Awwww, too bad, guess I will have to work on some quilts...all day.  I have been in the mood to make scrappy-antique-looking pieces the last couple days.  At some of my craft shows, people comment that putting a candle in the middle of a little quilt covers up too much of the design.  Here is my solution--use a plain center (brilliant idea, huh?), in this case a tiny brown and white "homespun" surrounded by scrappy half square triangles.  These are really big for me this time--1 1/4 inch finished size!!

Here's another one in progress. Right now it is a little smaller than the first with a different homespun center.

My other scrappy project is a little flying geese quilt.  I have enough geese done to make one quilt and enough squares and rectangles cut out to make enough geese for a second.  I haven't settled on the blue backgound yet--once the strips of geese are together I try out different colors.  The selection of fabrics for the geese was intentional to try to make it look unintentional.  Make sense?