wednesday math class

while pondering the really important things of life like UFO and stash busting--forget immigration, climate change and gun control--pulled out this aging piece waiting to be finished...

it isn't large but holding me back was the wrong foundation paper, a fibrous thingie that doesn't wash out and difficult to remove by hand.  so what to do with it?  math to the rescue!    i took this 1 small and pretty UFO....added 2 flannel scraps taking up little but valuable shelf space...

add yards of bias binding on hand, an orange batik that was just right!

i store leftover bias binding strips on paper towel rolls for whenever.....and the sum of all these parts is....

a colorful potholder that'll make a nice bread'n'butter gift for somebody....and if you look close you can see a couple of pins where the stitching came out when trying to remove aforesaid foundation material....out of the parts got enough for 4 of these plus some leftover strips that'll get pieced together frankenstein method to make at least one for me....and that's a subtraction from the UFO list....win/win!