Scrappy log cabins

My scrap basket has been bothering me, because it's been getting a bit full (not totally full, but enough) - at the start of the weekend, it looked like this.  OK, that's only about half full, but it only gets worse...

So, I decided to tackle it, in conjunction with a shoebox full of small, colour coordinated scraps (which are leftover from the last time I completely emptied the scrap basket)

and my box of scrap strips

which was looking a lot better since I made all those 12" strippy blocks, but which still had plenty of shorter strips in it. 

I decided to make scrappy log cabins, because it's a practical way to use most sizes of square and rectangle and because I like making log cabins. 

I also decided, while I was at it, to cut some of my smaller scraps into 2" squares. This is really the fault of a blogging friend, with whom I swapped some 2" squares - we each sent 100.  This may sound like a lot, but as those of you who have worked with 2" squares know, it doesn't go far. So I knew I'd need some more...

...though perhaps not 1600 more, which is how many I have now (actually, 1700, counting the ones from Indigo Blue) - each of those piles is 100, 2" squares. 

So, at the end of the weekend, I have the 16 log cabin blocks shown above (they are 8.5", to finish at 8" and are not sewn into a top yet - I'm just accumulating blocks for now), plus about 2 dozen more in various stages of creation, but not yet with enough rounds to reach the 8" mark,

a shoebox full of log cabin starters (2- round and 3-round blocks) and a lid full of small log and some centres, 

a strip bin which has fewer strips in it (you can see the bottom of the bin, in the top right hand corner of the photo), and...

an empty scrap basket. 

I will finish off some more log cabins, as long as I have strips to make logs from, but I'm sure I will have more starter pieces than I need to go with the number of logs I have - that's fine, though, I will just hang on to them to use with more scraps, as those accumulate - which I'm sure they will!  I have a basket of slightly larger scraps I can go through as well, if I feel the urge...