and the first row is done.
I started bright and early again this morning and pieced together pieces for the backing ( pic later)... it wasn't that hard, but it did take quite a bit of time. By noon, everything was loaded and ready to quilt.
I wanted to use poly threads instead of cotton on this quilt; thought about my variegated blue, but it's cotton and I didn't like it next to the blue in the quilt. Checked my poly threads... have a tealish blue that I thought wouldn't work, but it does. Then, while checking threads, I looked for a white poly in my stash - no such thing; I really need to start buying more poly threads - I don't have red in either poly or cotton, but that's fine today since I didn't want to stitch in the red anyway. Anyway, because I don't have any white poly thread, I'm using the same tealish blue for the waves in the white strips.
Here's a close up of one of the blue squares... I'm doing Mariner's Compass in them.
Because I want to get this quilt done by Thursday and because I don't want to over quilt it - I want Tonya to be able to snuggle under it if she wants, the Mariner's Compass stars and the waves in the stripes will be all I'm doing; that's 'custom' enough what with all the stops and starts I'm having to do from block to block - or section to section.
Ok, back to it!
TTYL
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