Attempt at Improv - QAYG

Monday night I had a need, a need for mindless sewing.

Like so many of you, quilting is a stress reliever for me.  Usually my current quilt project will do the trick, but Monday night I received "too many" phone calls from work and NEEDED some mindless sewing.

I had been wanting to try some improv sewing and the quilt as you go (QAYG) method seemed enticing and simple enough.  I did some research (scanned through Pinterest) and found some great tutorials that I had forgotten about. Too many pins, so little time, right?

Stitched in Color offers a great look at doing a Log Cabin QAYG.   With a little more freedom, I attempted a "wonky" Log Cabin. 

Here are my results:

(sorry - low light iPad picture)

Overall, not too bad for my first time.  I was feeling extra adventurous and choose a light gray thread for the top stitching.  I'm not happy with that I ended up a with more darks at the top than the bottom.  However, I was "improv-ing" and was trying not to pay attention to how things were looking.  The other problem was using fusible fleece.  Can you say "OOOPS" and face-palm?  Small pieces + glue on fusible fleece = gunk on the iron.  The iron did not like that at all and I'm having to take a magic eraser to it tomorrow.  Next time, just use cotton batting ok?

So now, what do I do with it?  Make more in different color schemes? Turn it into a bag?  Or leave it with the other WIPs until inspiration comes?

What do you do with your QAYG blocks?

Also, side note, recently reached 10,000 page views on the blog (yes, I realize that some of that was spam).  So a celebration is in order.  More details to come!

Linking up to Freshly Pieced's WIP Wednesday!