Improv Sewing: Mirror Ball Dots

Well, you may have noticed I didn't really hit my March goals...something else got in the way!

Yup, let's paint the house :) Mustard bathroom & 80s wallpaper, be gone!

Then we decided we should just redo the bathroom. So we're working on that...

Since I haven't had any sewing time, when John asked me what I wanted to do for my birthday yesterday, you know what the answer was! I didn't have anything ongoing I wanted to work on, so I pulled out my metallic Mirror Ball Dots by Michael Miller.

Eek, they are gorgeous!! They really shimmer in the sunlight:

I didn't have a pattern in mind when I got these and didn't want to take the time to draw something up, so I thought I'd try doing some improv (which I'm notoriously bad at...just an fyi). So I worked on some slicing and inserting...

And got this:

I wasn't sold.

So then I did an improv herringbone type of thing on some foundation paper (so I would know where I was going).

I like it better. A little.

But I have no idea what to do with any of this now! And while it was really fun to be able to start cutting and sewing right this second, I feel like I used up some precious fabric and kinda just want it back.

I think I'll be sticking with the preplanned patterns...

For now, at least :)