Bringing Home the Tree

Towards the end of my last blog post, I told about a quilt kit that had been patiently waiting in the corner of my sewing room.  I shared photos of the first two blocks... I don't remember what happened Monday that I didn't blog , other than our car was in the shop for more than half a day.  I sewed that day, so I couldn't have been stressed.  

Yesterday was the funeral for my last remaining aunt.  It was nice to see all of my cousins at the luncheon afterwards - just wish I could see them more often and that it didn't involve a funeral. 

Ok, on to something 'brighter'...  Monday morning, I managed to finish two more blocks.

Down below is a photo of the back of the snowflake block.  Not sure why I took a photo, but I'll show it anyway lol.  You can see that I have torn/cleared away the paper around two of the blocks .. with the third one waiting.  I used old phone book pages for the stabilizer... easy to tear away  most of the time and definitely cheaper than store bought products.

This one was done Monday afternoon/evening.

And, the final two were done today.  I got smart and fused them down at the same time and then went from one block to the other and back again whenever there was a change in thread colors.

After the blocks were applique'd, then came THIS set of directions.... 175 ARGHHH...

BUT the good part was that there were the half square triangle papers included in the pattern.

After messing up with fabrics on the first block, I figured out what that large piece of fabric in the last monthly bundle was for and matched it up with the other pieces intended for the sashing.
Either my math is off ( that wouldn't be a surprise) or they gave me extra papers because my math says that I have (can't remember exactly) about 190 and you can see in the sewing instructions that I need 175.

Here they are... all except for the first one which will get put aside just in case I need it.

Tomorrow, I'll trim and tear papers away and press & trim the blocks before sewing them into the required rows.  Then it will be time to trim up the applique'd blocks and start sewing everything together.  I should be able to have the top finished Friday. - just in time to get my new BOM's on Saturday and our new Project Quilting challenge on Sunday.

And on that note, I'm calling it a night here....

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