Crumb-Along Tuesday - Week 5

Only got two blocks made for Crumb-Along today.  I'd like to tell you that I purposefully chose all my ugliest fabric crumbs to make these.... (peeyew!)  but the truth is, that's what I grabbed when I dipped my hand into the crumb bin today.  I'm hoping they kind of get swallowed up in the rest of the crumb blocks I've made so far.  You can see those in this blog post.

And to make those, I cheated on making the half square triangles.  I took them from a box where I keep trimmed bonus HSTs sized 1.5", 1.75", and 2".

I might have made more, but as I was digging in the crumb box for the bigger chunks, I got distracted by thinking about what kind of project could use these skinny little bits....  Now I think I've mentioned before that my crumbs are on the tiny side.  Here's a pic of what I mean.  Not quite an inch wide and two inches long.  Now, why on earth did I keep that?

Thoughts of Tonya's lego blocks (link on the right under tutorials) running through my head, and images of Katell's gorgeous crumb blocks... Have you seen them?  I love the butterflies she posted on her blog and to the Flickr Group Pool?  A link to her blog is here.  Some of the components in her Ohio Stars are cut from stripped fabrics.  That's when I started combining skinny strips to make big enough pieces of fabric from which to cut bigger block components.  And that took up most of the rest of the night.