Penguin quilt and shibori postcard

I'm purposely not talking about the virus and sequestration and all that goes along with this. My sewing room and my blog are my escapes. But I am thinking of all you and hoping that you and your families are safe and comfortable. We're doing great here. Like many of you, being away from other people isn't exactly hard times for me.

I tried out several different options to add length to my penguin quilt until I found these clamped shibori half yards in my shibori bin and thought that I might be able to make "ice" for the penguins to skate on. The clamped fabrics have more white in them than the penguin bodies. I got the first sashing done and I like the look. I'll proceed on and get the other sashing rows and outer borders done.
​Several people recommended another row of penguins. That was an option I considered but I'd ahve to make 5 more faces and I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
​I'm just thinking that it might be possible for this to be a March finish!

While I was cleaning off the cutting table to work on the sashing I started playing with the shibori scraps. They are so pretty! They could possibly be placemats combined with the leftover light blue backing fabric. But I decided to try a postcard first.

Some hand stitching seemed to be in order and I found these candidates in my collection of embroidery threads.

I sewed together enough strips to cover a 4 x 6 postcard base but didn't fuse it to the postcard base yet.

I stitched on some circles with Perle cotton. I do realize that the circle motifs don't really fit in this assemblage but I was in the mood for circles and really just trying to decided if postcards were what I wanted to do with these scraps.

All I had to do to finish it was to fuse it to a postcard base, fuse on a backing and stitch around the edges. 
Yes, I'm please with this and I'll make postcards with the rest of the scraps.