Do you ever find things that you forgot you had? I do...quite frequently, in fact! I pulled out my bin of "novelty" fabrics in search of something that I could use to make a couple of baby quilts for donation. I probably pulled about 1/2 of the fabrics out, when I discovered a ziplock buried deep down inside. Please understand...this bin is fairly well organized, fabrics are folded and I can scan what is inside pretty easily. But somehow, this ziplock had been hidden from view for quite sometime! I had forgotten all about it. Inside I found a nice little stash of novelty charms. Apparently, I had been part of a swap at some point. There were two of each charm and each measures 4.5". I vaguely remember participating in this swap and I know I probably had some grand plan for an I Spy quilt.
I decided this would be a perfect solution for the needed donation quilts. I separated the duplicate charms and came up with two stacks that look like this:

Then, because time is a bit of an issue right now (when isn't it??), I just sewed them up and made two quilts! These two quilts are from just one stack of charms. I have that stack above still available to make more. I think they turned out quite cute. All the charms are different in each quilt, so it's still could be a type of I Spy quilt, don't you think? The backing and binding also came from my stash...awesome! Love when that happens.

The quilts will be donated to a Crisis Pregnancy Center in Indiana. Our Retreat Mama collects the quilts at retreat and delivers them to the center for us.
Oh yes...did I mention I'm going on a quilting retreat in less than a week! Yay! I can't wait!
Happy Quilting!