MIA/AWOL squares have been captured!

I spent part of the afternoon today sorting through and straightening out things in my sewing room... had already gone through all three of my 'trash' bags without any luck finding those pesky red squares for one of the blocks of Afternoon Delight that were mentioned in my previous post.

Part of my sorting and straightening involved me deciding that I probably should clean out my bobbin case area while I'm sitting here... got it done, then went to put the plate back on but couldn't find the screw... arghh!!  I KNOW I had put it on my extension table for my machine and I had it standing up so that it wouldn't roll.... but I COULDN'T SEE IT.  

Ok, time to get my phone and turn it's flashlight on to check out the floor beneath my sewing machine table..nope, no screw, .... but wait... what's that?!!?

Oh man, it couldn't be... less than two feet from my own feet with only that table leg blocking my view...   YEP, it was the AWOL squares!!

Ignore the 'mess' around  the blocks in the first pic... I'll get that taken care of soon enough.

Yesterday, I unpicked the stitching in the block that had 4 patches facing the 'wrong' direction and got them stitched back in the way I wanted them to be.  Then, I did something really stupid... I tried trimming one of the applique' blocks down from about 8" to 7 1/4"... and messed it up totally.... see how close to the edge the applique' is on the left and bottom?  sigh

 I had to make the block all over again - just didn't try to square it up.  This morning, I realized what I did wrong... I've had problems with squaring up blocks like forever; most times I can 'fudge' it - but I shouldn't have to any more since it dawned on me what I was doing wrong and how to do it right. ( I'd explain, but I'd probably confuse people more).  I just have to remember that for these blocks 3 5/8" is the magic number.










Tomorrow, I'm going to finally get the RSC2019 blocks sewn into a flimsy so that I can measure it to know what size borders I need.  Remember, this is going to be probably at least twice as big as the pattern calls for.  I don't want to screw up with my lousy math and try to figure it all out before sewing the blocks all together... I'd mess up on a sashing or something for sure.  Much better/safer for me to get it together and then measure.  Since I'm stitching the applique' pieces for the borders onto the borders before I attach the borders, I can't be having them too small... too big, I can probably deal with but not too small.  I plan on doing the border applique at the guild's sew in this weekend and MAYBE have the borders sewn on before the weekend is over; then the quilt can join the WTBQ line.

Next week I hope to be able to get back to working on the quilt that's been on Mo'e for more than a couple of weeks now.  I've been busy with other things (like hubby in the hospital, my having a mri and then ultrasound for my right leg, then his birthday...starting on new quilts...first trip of the new year to see our favorite .- The Booth Brothers, ... etc etc).  Since my legs are still bothering me, it's just been easier for me to work on making quilt blocks than to stand at Mo'e for more than five minutes at a time - but it's given me time to decide what I want to do in the borders.

I dont think I posted a pic of what I decided to do for this year's RSC... I  thought of one thimg, but wasn't excited about it.... then I thought about the BOM that I  joined over on fatcatpatterns fb group....yes, I  think  it will work..Here's  January...Block 1 in bright/light greens...

After I took the first photo, I went searching for ribbon and found enough to give this guy a bow(tie).  And instead of appliqueing down little black circles for the eyes, I went looking for my tiny black buttons... found green ones instead - works for me! :)

And on that note, I'm calling it a night... tomorrow may be a long day in my sewing room - I'd better get some sleep.

take care...
ttyl....
Almost forgot to show this....

I decided to add some more texture to this block by hand stitching with crewel thread to make a center vein in each of the leaves.  Something simple, but I like it and hope to be ablecto do something similar on a few more blocks in the future.