I finished making the EIGHTY blocks late last night. Because I had used one strip from the jelly roll (or maybe it was two), I didn't have enough to make all the blocks. Luckily, I had already cut out some solid blue from the same 'scratched' project so I used those.
Joined granddaughter and her two daughters at the movies at noon today... saw HOP - kind of a silly movie but the girls seemed to enjoy it and it did have some 'interesting' parts. It was raining when we came out of the theatre - rain makes some people sleepy and that's what it did to me. After I got home, I set the alarm on my phone for 1 hr. 16 minutes ( 3 pm) and laid down on the couch. As usual, I shut the alarm off and kept laying there for another 15 minutes or so - usually it's half an hour.
Fixed dinner... meat loaf and boiled potatoes and while it was cooking, I did a little bit of work on the blocks. After dinner, I had two jello salads to make for dinner with family tomorrow. Once those were done, it was back to my sewing room.
Four out of ten rows done so far... maybe I can do a couple before we leave for dinner and maybe the rest after we get back - we'll see. The 'rumor' is that we're supposed to get snow tomorrow... hope it's just a sick April Fool's joke.
Ok, since this top is almost done that means I have ( well, had) an empty tub
But I took another project in waiting out of a plastic ziploc type bag and put it in... this will be one of the next one's I work on.
Definitely not baby colors but it can always be used as a lap quilt... it's just something for me to try using some of my fat quarters on. You know, now that I look at them, I'm wondering if maybe one of the fat quarter sets that I've been getting monthly from Quilt in a Day might work just as well... or maybe I'll make one with these fqs and another with the QIAD set. I'm not deciding a whole lot until I get my "Marie" back from her visit to the 'spa'.
I watched some videos on youtube today, too. One with Jamie Wallen showing background motifs and a couple with Linda V. Taylor. The one with Linda that really got my attention was an antique Sunbonnet Sue and Sam quilt that she had acquired. It was already hand quilted but she wanted to give it a little more 'punch' and to use it as a wall hanging. I was interested because I have that Sunbonnet Sue quilt that a former guild member made and I'm really looking for ideas on what to do with it. I think this video will help out quite a bit.
Another one of Linda's videos that I watched was the Texas, Our Texas quilt. It's the same one that I made for one of my grandsons who live in Texas. I sure wish I had seen this before I quilted his... of course, she didn't have it then. She had some good ideas for the borders, which I struggled with ( compounded by my being a pretty new mid arm owner). IF I was really ambitious and didn't have a list longer than my arm of quilts I still want to do the first time, I'd consider doing it again.
Ok, Buddy is sitting here politely waiting for me so we can go to bed ( and he can get his bedtime snack lol).
Happy Easter
TTYL
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