TUESDAY TRIO

I got three blocks done today - one of each project.

And I donated my 93rd pint of blood.  I got a purple wrap and some apple juice.

Lots of little pieces.

Finished.

Third block of Tape Measure.

M blocks of Lettered

BLOCKS AND MORE BLOCKS

 It poured down rain last night into early this morning, but it stopped just in time for Jelly and I to take a nice walk in the park.  It changed from dust to mud overnight, but the colors were spectacular.

Back home, I went back to my idea of making one block from each of my projects every day. 

First up was the Tape Measure quilt.  I accidently made the first cut through the stack of four squares before I realized that half of them were upside down.  Hmm, that means that two of them will be mirror images.  I'm thinking I might do the rest of the blocks similarly.  

 Then, it was the next letter in Lettered.

Then I got the pleasure of making number seven of Journey to Fall Paducah. [I've set aside number six, waiting for a certain color to come in.]

A couple of days ago, Bentley came up to the studio and took a nap on my six yards of Kona Premium Black fabric for above project.  He left cat hair and flotsom all over it.  Yuck.  I lucked out by putting it all into the dryer on low heat and it pretty much all came out.  That darn cat, he always finds the best spots.

For lunch, Darrell and I went to Coastline Burgers.  Then we walked down to the Farmer's Market and he took pictures for me of my quilt, Pub Path.

JOURNEY FIVE

I got a little bit done today.  Sewing a million half-square-triangle squares together and trying to get the points to match up.  I had to do a little unsewing and resewing, but it turned out okay.

Yesterday, my monthly shipment of Kona Solids came.  I ran them through the wash and dry and folded them onto cards today, too.

PALINDROME DAY

Today is 8-18-18 or 81818.  In fact, all this week  and more, the dates are palindromes.  81018, 81118, 81218, 81318, 81418, 81518, 81618, 81718, 81918.  Yahoo!

My Journey block for today is a palindrome [a lot of quilt blocks are palindromes].  So, I thought I'd just mention it.

This block has a lot of half-square-triangles, too.  I make them over-sized and then trim them down to the correct size.

Happy Palindrome day!

THIRD JOURNEY

Making these little Journey to Fall Paducah blocks are so satisfying!

When they go together and everything lines up and the points match, it gives me a great feeling of accomplishment.  I'm really enjoying this.

I feel a little guilty that I've abandoned my other projects to start this new one, so I thought I'd better make a couple more City Sampler blocks.    Here are numbers 71 and 72.  These went together fairly quickly, easy peasy.

MORE ON THE JOURNEY

This new project I've jumped into is called "Journey to Fall Paducah".  Its a free pattern from AQS.

I went to the fabric store and bought 6 yards of Kona black.  I'll use the colors that I already have.

I made the second block today.

Then I had problems with those darn paper pieced corners again.  I'm ready to blame it on the instructions and the size they say to cut the pieces.  They were too short.  I made some notes and will cut them bigger next time.

BUT, these blocks finish at 15" and there are 36 of them, making the quilt 103" by 103".  Too big to fit on my longarm.  Too big for anything.

So, now I'm thinking about modifying the block borders to make the whole quilt smaller.  So, maybe I won't need those darn corner blocks.

I had a little time to whip out the next Splendid Sampler 2 block.  Well, it's not finished, but it's ready to be hand appliqued.

WEDNESDAY WORK

Here is this week's Block Head 2 block.

And then I decided to go off on another tangent.  Of course.  But I love it.

It involves a lot of little one inch squares and half-square-triangles.  I made them oversized then trimmed them down to 1-1/2".

the trimmings

Finished seven inch block.

I love the way the back looks, too.

The pattern calls for a pieced border around each block with paper-pieced corners.   I made them wrong and quit for the day.

I had a hard time with the corners, so this is where I ended for the day.