Five Fat Quarter Fun

 This is what I grabbed from next to my sewing table and started on Saturday afternoon....  the finished size is only about 36" x 36", smaller than I wanted - and since there was enough fabric in each of the fat quarters, I cut double and used four of  the fqs for the blocks, the fifth one for the centers of the stars and the sashing blocks then grabbed a sixth block out of the 8 fq set I had and used it for the center star.

First block... yeah, I like it :)

Then, some of the teenaged grandkids came to visit and, after they left, I was in a rush to finish up the second block while dinner was cooking.  That was NOT a good idea.

The block in the middle was the second one... I noticed it yesterday as I was working on the remaining blocks and just knew 'something wasn't right'..  it took me awhile to find the photo with the mistake, too... Of course, I had to take the block apart and re-do it.  In fact, I think I had to re-do another block for the same reason.  SIGH... what should have been a pretty easy quilt to construct just seemed to be fraught with one bad thing or another.... at one point, my sewing machine quit working - what's up with that!?!??!  I'm thinking... oh yeah, I'm going to have to take it into the shop and they'll probably tell me that I fried the computer components or something that would result in them trying to sell me a new machine.

I checked the outlet the machine was plugged into... guess what!... that was the problem, the plug was coming out of the socket - I must have bumped it somehow.  The usual 'problems' that crept up on me was ... running out of bobbin thread but not noticing until I 'finished' sewing the sashing on.... and, of course, it wasn't the short sashing between each block... noooooo, I had to run out while sewing the long sashing between two rows... thankfully, I had somehow missed taking out pins, though, so I didn't have to refit and re-pin.

Here it is - almost done... I want to add a blue border, but got sidetracked after I took a break for lunch.

I started cleaning - well, re-arranging - some of the things in my 'stash room' so that I could take the totes full of projects waiting their turn and put them in the 'stash room'.  They've been in the family room for at least two years.  There's still stuff to be moved, but I got the majority of it out.  I'll have to move some more things around in the 'stash room' so that I can get to the bookshelf and move things on it to make room for the boxes of patterns that I also need to get out of the family room.

  It didn't get this way overnight and it won't be cleared out overnight either. 

Ok, well, I left some things just outside the 'stash room' and they need to get put back in there before hubby thinks I want them thrown out (silly man)...

take care...
ttyl.......