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.

BINDING DAY

Hello September!  I love you!  

I finished off 'G' because I had made the triangle squares yesterday.  I needed to get them off my table.  That didn't take long.

Darrell was shooting photos of his newest piece, a Tall Corner Table.  He set it up in the dining room.  The dogs and I were an interested audience.

Then it was on to the binding for Pub Path.  First I cut the excess off.  I use my big 15" ruler to square up the corners.

I made the binding then sewed it onto the back, ironed it, then folded it over to the front.  I use the new binding clips to hold it all down.  I need to buy more clips.  Then top stitch it down on the front.

When sewing it down onto the front I love using my little awl.  It really helps.

ON THE BRIDGE

I took Floral Trails around and took pictures of it, finally.

PICTURE PERFECT

I finally got around to taking photos of the Brassica quilt.

The afternoon got up over 90 degrees, so I finally went in (to the air conditioning) and worked on the binding of this quilt.

MONDAY NORMAL

It rained last night.  That means the trees released a lot of stuff back onto my clean sidewalks and driveway.  Aaargh, it's never-ending. 

But, it still looks better than it did before yesterday.

After a nice walk in Lincoln Park with the doggos, I spent the rest of the morning sewing.

More City Sampler blocks:

After lunch, the weather was just perfect.  It's about 69 degrees and very little breeze.  Clouds but still sunny.  I decided to take a quilt up to Solstice Park to get some pictures.  

A Ladybug!

 On the way home, on Barton Street, someone had set these chairs out - presumably free.  I thought I'd take advantage and see what a photo would look like.

Then, on the way back to the car, I thought this would be cute.

It was a nice Monday.