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For the 8th night of Hanukkah I received what most would think is a pretty random gift. My husband gave me a bun pan rack. Actually a half rack (cause a full rack would be ridiculous!). You might not know what this is. It's a rack like you would see in an industrial kitchen to hold sheet pans. Most likely maybe you've seen one behind the counter at a donut shop or bagel shop.

So why did I receive this gift? Well, I don't have an industrial kitchen and my oven isn't even large enough to fit a full sheet pan, so not for baking! I'll be using it in my studio for project organization. I've been using the smaller version of this for years... fast food trays. This new super size tray system will give me even more room to organize my ongoing projects. Try as I might, I'm usually working on at least 2-3 projects at one, plus monthly bee blocks. And often these projects get buried under layers on my cutting table or ironing board. (Maybe you can relate?) These 18" x 26" pans give me lots of space to pack in all the pieces for even a larger project. And I can use my fast food trays on them.

I've loaded up the current active projects and raised the height of my cutting table to fit the rack underneath for now, though I've already decided this slight adjustment to table height makes it suboptimal ergonomically, so I'll be making some adjustments. My room isn't giant, meaning I probably don't really need to be able to roll it around, so maybe I'll just remove the wheels. Or if I rearrange things a little, I think I can roll it into the closet. Time will tell... but probably I'll wait until I need to do more cutting to deal with readjusting my table height.

These are my Kona solids for my bee blocks this month. I can easily pull out a sheet pan to put on my cutting table to work, or I can just pull them out like drawers as the picture above.

What's your most interesting tool or storage item in your sewing space?

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I share my work over on Instagram @sarahgoerquilts. Top Nine combs a person's feed from the year to find the nine most popular posts. Here are mine.

1. My Sewcialites quilt along week 1 block.

2. Mini Series Sew Along Week 3.

3. My new board game closet. (Some of my favorite games can be found in this post.)

4. Mini Series Sew Along Week 1.

5. Blackwood Cardigan. (pattern from Helen's Closet Patterns)

6. Mini Series Sew Along Week 8.

7. Project QUILTING 11.3: Put a Heart on It. (2nd in Improv Log Cabin Mini Series)

8. Wonky cross quilt top. Started in a 2016 QuiltCon Intermediate Improv workshop with Rossie Hutchinson.

9. Project QUILTING 11.2: Team Colors. (1st in Improv Log Cabin Mini Series)

 

In summary, people appreciated tiny piecing and community sewing. :-)

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As I reached the end of my 100 Day Project (July - October 2020) I realized that my series of mini quilts was one color short of a rainbow. Therefore, I had no choice but to make my final improv log cabin purple. There weren't many days left, so I opted for quick and easy. I hadn't made a quarter log cabin yet, so that's what I created, alternating black and white prints with purple prints.

I chose two filler motifs for the free motion quilting.

 

In 100 days, I completed these five mini quilts, start to finish. Each is 16 1/2" x 16 1/2".

 

And the full 2020 series:

I chose the log cabin due to the ubiquitous nature of the traditional log cabin. I love the variety of styles achievable with the log cabin. I feel like this series could continue indefinitely.

You can read all about the other quilts in the series here:

This is day 18 of the 31-Day Blog Writing Challenge with Cheryl.