SIGH

I finally finished the I Love My All Stars blocks last night.  Wouldn't you know that the next to last one would give me such a hard time that it took almost two hours to do - bad enough that each block took an average of one hour EACH.  I'm not sure what happened to this ornery block but I finally got it to fit.
This morning, I stitched the blocks together... now they're waiting for the sashing.

 The pattern calls for gray sashing and I have some in my stash - but it was supposed to be used on another quilt... sigh, guess I'll go ahead and 'rob from Peter to pay Paul" and I'll get some for the other quilt at another date.

Yesterday morning, I finally convinced myself that I HAD to go to Walmart to buy a new iron ( and ironing board cover since I needed one of those, too).  Just another cheap set... $9 and change for the iron and $4 and change for the cover.  I also bought the backing fabric for the All Stars quilt .. a nice white polka dot on a gray background ( kind of like a Swiss dot?).

Came back home and tried to put the new cover onto the ironing board ( after taking old one off, of course) and it didn't quite fit.  There was this  'nasty' white foam padding on the back which proceeded to tear as I was trying to get the cover on.  Once I succeeded in getting the cover on, that white foam made big lumps in it, so I took it back off and tore it all out... now the cover fits like it's supposed to.  I still had the padding on the board itself so that cheap foamy stuff wasn't needed anyway.  I can't remember how long ago I bought that padding, at least two or three covers ago... but it still works, so it can stay until I need to replace the cover again - and when that happens, I'm going to buy a new board.  I got this one -used- almost 30 years ago and it's annoyed me for years; I've just been too cheap/frugal/thrifty to replace it - I'm one of those who believe that if it still works, there's no reason to get rid of it.  :(

I just looked at the pic... it looks like the top row is longer than the ones below it - NOT GOOD.  I went and looked at the actual rows... no, the top row is not lined up correctly on the wall... the other rows are more to the left than the top row is.  Whew!!

I've got to do a quick clean up of the sewing area ( and freezer top) before I can lay out the fabric to cut the sashing.. The bin that this quilt has been in can be cleaned out - will I fill it with another 'quilt in the works', with my fat quarter collection or just leave it empty?  We'll have to wait and see.

TTYL