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Spent the morning photographing everything I made this past week.  I so need a photo editor to do all of this for me.  I heard back from Snow Farm and she felt my work would make a good contribution to their month long shop so the pressure is definitely on to produce enough work for the shops I am already in plus this pop-up shop.  Part of this weeks production was 2 chili pepper aprons.  The first one was a 2 fabric reversible - orange reversing to the chili peppers.  I purchased enough of the orange fabric to make a second apron and at the time, I found a yellow tone on tone fabric which would play nicely with the orange and chili pepper fabrics.  There was only a fat quarter of the yellow fabric but if I was careful, I could made it work.  So, picture this, I have the color block side all assembled , the ties cut out and sewn, the orange side cut out along with the orange pocket and it is now time to make the contrasting pocket for the plain orange side.  It is then that the discovery is made that the remaining chili pepper fabric is not wide enough to make a pocket out of....it is < 13" wide and a pocket is 14" and anything less makes a skimpy pocket.  Also, not much of that yellow fabric left so I cannot make a check board pocket..... what to do, what to do????  Now Sandy, don't panic!  There is this saying that goes something like necessity is the mother of invention.  Time to start inventing!  Got out my handy dandy rotary cutting and started slicing and dicing.  I realized that if I inserted a yellow strip into the pocket it would make it wider......first cut made, strip inserted, pocket sewn back together.  It looked a little lonely....do I have enough yellow for another strip?  EEGADS!  not a continuous strip so I rotary cut on an angle through the first strip and had the second strip intersect it and where they crossed, I connected the two short yellow strips with an orange block.  Pocket is now wide enough but not tall enough,  Fortunately I had enough of the chili pepper fabric left over to fashion not only a long enough strip of the chili pepper fabric which I attached to the top of the pocket but also enough scrapes to made an  8*' block which I will turn into a matching hot pad.  What can I say...bully for me!  What's left of that yellow fabric?  Not enough to talk about.