It all started with this:
I came across a big tub of college textbooks in our capped garage. The moment I opened the lid, I knew they were mine. Children's Literature, Teaching Math in Elementary Grades, Roget's Thesaurus...all were nearly 35 years old! Time to go, right? I cut off the hard covers and bindings and threw the insides in the recycle bin. But at the very bottom lay the little book of lens papers. Likely from my freshman semester of Biology and dissecting frogs, pig hearts, and building fruit fly farms. Not one of the lens papers had been used...all 50 sheets were intact.
They, too, went into the recycle bin. But soon came out!
I knew I could put them to use. I'd seen scraps sewn onto long strips of calculator paper. I didn't have any calculator paper, but Lord knows I have scraps and now I had lens paper! Plus, this paper is so much thinner that regular paper, so I didn't have to worry as much with my needle dulling.
I had no project in mind, but I just enjoyed gathering like colors to make blocks, that when trimmed, were about 4" x 6". Mindless sewing is just the best, isn't it?
On the left are the blocks before tearing off the backing (lens) papers. The right photo is after I had them all sewn together and trimmed. 
