Pink Pink Pink

I think I mentioned in my last post that I was going to work on my RSC yesterday.  Well, I did, but it wasn't until evening.  I started the day off by loading the Disappearing 9 Patch QAL onto Mo'e and had decided that I wanted to try and quilt it using the Baptist Fan pattern.  I watched a couple three (or four) youtube videos on how to do it either with a specific tool - or with circle templates.  I have the specific tool, but it's a real pain so when I watched the youtube video with Lisa Calle using acrylic circle templates, I thought "Hey, I can do that!".... WRONG... mine aren't exactly the same ones that she used and were different sizes... I tried to do a couple and they looked just a little wonky and, with the second one, I couldn't figure out where to place my marks so that the next arch would be the same width from point A to point B.  Sooooo, I ripped them out and went back to youtube and some of my quilting pattern books... leaning towards doing swirls, but they scare me to death... there must be SOMETHING else that I could do other than a simple, big ol' meander.

Anyway, after dinner I went into my sewing room and grabbed the pink scrap tote and, as I'm sorting through for pieces big enough to cut into 3" squares, I noticed a lot of strings - A LOT!... Well, no sense in sticking them back in the tote so that I have to paw through them to find what I need.  I grabbed some phone book pages and squared them up and started sewing strings onto the pages.  By the time I finished, I had six blocks done and not a whole lot of eligible string material left.

Yes, I said I made six blocks, but I'm only showing five.... because when I was laying one of the blocks onto the mat to trim to 6.5" squares, I didn't realize that I picked up two until I had cut through three sides.  That one went into the trash - I didn't even want  to mess with it long enough to tear off the papers and put it into the recycling  fabric bag.

This morning, I went back to cutting out 3" squares and then stitched them together... variety was a little slim but they'll work.  Here they are by themselves up on my design wall.

 Here's the pattern I'm working on.... I'm not sure if I've shown it before or not...

and here's a photo of Jan-July blocks.... I've also been working on the leaves and flowers.

somehow I had it figured out that I need 5 blocks a month for 12 months to get what I need.  The pattern doesn't call for that many, but I wanted mine larger than the pattern makes. 

And while all this was going on this morning, besides doing laundry and helping daughter in Texas pick out a rotary cutter and blades and whatever else she might need for a church project she's working on, hubby somehow managed to 'wound' our vacuum cleaner.  He didn't kill this one ( yet), but I think the belt either broke or came off whatever it's supposed to wrap around.  I could probably fix it myself, but he'd be standing over me wanting to do it himself or at least help (read that as backseat driving).  I told him that I'll take it in to the shop on Monday to have them look at it.  Less stressful for me that way. 

Time to get another load out of the washer and in to the dryer....

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