It was sew in weekend at the library and I went, but only for lunch and socializing on Saturday. I also got a couple of ideas for BB blocks... here's one that Cathy S. was working on in hopes of depleting her scrap piles. Ha Ha good luck with that, Cathy. The blocks she is doing are larger than this one that I did because the pattern makes a bigger block than I needed, so I used math ( not a good thing, trust me).. now the block is a little too small, but it will work out once I start putting the top together.... I made this one yesterday - trust me, it's not something that you can just whiz through... it's paper pieced, which I like, but it's also slow since you have to keep playing with fabrics to see if they'll fit and then there's all that trimming.
Today was a little more productive - I managed to get three blocks done, including one paper pieced.
I'm not sure why that left edge is like it is.... I suspect that that particular piece did not print out exactly the same as the other three.... it's smaller, too, so it will be dealt with later.
I decided I'd do a second church for Michael's quilt, but since the first one was dark, I wanted a lighter one this time. It looks white in the pic but it's a tan colored fabric. I used one of my 'fancy' stitches on my machine to stitch around the tracings that I did on the fabric. I used the dark brown thread for the church and bright red for the letters - saved myself some grief and hair pulling by using a red pen (not a marker - the fabric safe permanent pen I can't think of the name of right now lol) to do the inside of the letters e and a; no way was I going to try to do those by machine.
Then it was back to working on the 3 1/2" x 6 1/2" blocks - there are still several that need to be put into blocks.
I have either 22 or 23 blocks up on the design wall... and really wondering if I should just make 30 blocks 6 rows of 5 each plus sashing and borders.... or do the 42 blocks 7 rows of 6 blocks plus sashing and probably no border or maybe a narrow one. This is the 19th and I was hoping to have all three tops done and ready to quilt by the end of the month... I haven't even started on the third one!!... I think I might have to give myself one more week for the tops, and that will leave me a week to quilt & finish each quilt ( a week each!)
Ok, did a load of laundry today so now I'm going to go fold clothes while watching whatever's on tv tonight.
take care....
ttyl
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