LAST BLOCK FOR ECLIPSE

 Originally called Solstice, now called Eclipse, I finally made the last of the pieced triangle 'blocks' that make up the design for this quilt.  When I finished i put them up on the wall.  They are to be the center.

Then I just kept adding the other blocks to see how it looked.

Now to decide if I'm going to change anything, or leave it as is.  And decide on the background color.

NEBULA 4 BLOCKS

 I don't know why, but there were two blocks this month.  

I made the ones from the pattern and then drafted and made the smaller version from the leftovers.

BACKING FOR SHATTERED

 I made the label with the triangles yesterday and forgot to photograph it.

Here's the backing all sewn together and ready to go.

When I saw that fabric with the grey, black and white rhinos with the bright yellow background I knew it would be perfect for the back of this quilt.  This year's Pantone Color of the Year is actually two colors--

Illuminating (bright yellow) and Ultimate Grey:

So, now it looks like I planned this quilt for the Colors of the Year!

MOM'S DONE

 I made the label for Shattered this morning, then forgot to take a picture.

After lunch I picked up Mom and drove her to Valley General Hospital where she got her second shot of the Covid-19 vaccine.  She's good to go!

ALL TOGETHER

 While watching Joe's Workshop from yesterday in the morning and joining in with the Seattle MQG's Sunday Sew-In, I managed to get the blocks for Shattered all sewn together.

It's a quilt top.

I even started planning the backing.

Happy Pi Day!

NEBULA 3

 I finally got around to making the Nebula 3 blocks today.

There was barely enough fabric wide enough left to make the smaller versions.  I had to piece together a couple triangles to make it work.

I also got the Shattered blocks out and put them up on the wall.  Hopefully tomorrow I can sew them together.

QUILT DELIVERED

 Darrell and I took the Opening Night quilt over to Nicole and Victoria's new home and installed it on Victoria's bed, along with the pillows I made, too.

I love how it looked on her black bed.  I hope she enjoys it.

SKINNY STRIP QUILT TOP

 I squared down the blocks and put together the little top made using the two Skinny Strip blocks I made from Jenny Haynes workshop.  It's about 35" by 42".

It is inviting me to do some interesting quilting on it.  

SKETCHING PLAYLAB

 I've been trying to get a spot in the Sketching Playlab sessions each month.  This is my second time participating.

This one was about 'Texture'.  Very fun.

BEAN SOUP

 Wednesdays have been our shopping day lately.  It seems to be the least popular day of the week so there aren't very many people in the store when they open at 6am for elderly/at risk shoppers.  

After we unloaded our groceries at home, we went over to a little coffee shop/cafe a few blocks away called The Birdhouse.  They have really nice gluten free options.  I got a breakfast sandwich and Darrell got a breakfast bowl with scrambled eggs, beans and bacon.

Waiting for our order.  

Back home, I made a bean soup for us to have for lunches for this week.

FOOD TRUCK LUNCH

 We went down to South Park today to check out this food truck, Momo's Kebab.  I sketched while we were waiting for our food to be prepared.  The food was good.

SEW MODERN CONNECTION

 I was invited to join a new group called Sew Modern Connection.  It is a group of folks meeting on the first Sunday of the month to discuss their work sewing Modern style quilts. We had show-n-tell and talked about Quiltcon.

I worked on my Skinny Inset Strip blocks from the workshop yesterday and got them up on the wall.  I still need to trim them and sew them together.  It will be a small quilt.

I also was finishing up the quilting for some pillow shams.  I had Eduard working on them in the background.

SKINNY INSET STRIPS

 I attended a zoom workshop with Jenny Haynes of PapperSaxSten today.  This one was about how to insert very skinny strips in the curve of a drunkard's path block.  It was a very informative workshop.  Not only is Jenny full of tips and information, but the attendees that you encounter in her workshops are also very talented.  You can glean a lot of ideas and inspiration from them.

JACOB LAWRENCE EXHIBIT

 Darrell and I went into Seattle to the Seattle Art Museum to see the new Jacob Lawrence Exhibit, The American  Struggle.

The exhibit is the collection of paintings interpreting pivotal moments in American History.

It was fascinating.

    "The paintings which I propose to do will depict the struggles of a people to create a nation and their attempt to build a democracy.  This work will begin with the causes and events leading into the American Revolutionary War and end with the sailing of the American Fleet around the world in 1908.  Between these two events will be depicted the great migration westward which occurred during the greater part of the nineteenth century, and incidents leading up to and including the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution.
    These paintings will be executed in 'egg tempura' on sixty gesso panels, sixteen by twelve inches in size.
Since I have just about completed the research phase of this work and have begun the actual paintings, (six have been completed to date) I estimate that this project should be completed in the Fall of 1956.
On the completion of this work I shall exhibit it at the Alan Gallery in New York City.  I also plan to explore the possibilities of having it published."

Jacob Lawrence, December 16, 1954

The Tree exhibit in the lobby

"Rich Black Specimen #460" Sculpture by Hank Willis Thomas 

Panel 5, We have not property! We have no wives! No children! We have no city! No country!  --petition of many slaves, 1773

Panel 6, ...we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honour -- 4 July 1776

Panel 8, ...again the rebels rushed furiously on our men. --a Hessian soldier, from a letter written in 1777 recounting the British defeat at the Battle of Bennington.

 

Panel 9, Defeat -- depicting the American's defeat by the British at Philadelphia in September 1777.

Panel 18, In all your intercourse with the natives, treat them in the most friendly and conciliatory  manner which their own conduct will admit... --Jefferson to Lewis & Clark, 1803
This panel shows Sacajawea standing next to her brother, Chief Cameahwait.

Panel 24, Of the Senate House, the President's Palace, the barracks, the dockyard... nothing could be seen except heaps of smoking ruins... --a British officer at Washington, 1814

Panel 26, Peace

We really enjoyed the exhibit and highly recommend it.  SAM is selling tickets with a time to enter in an attempt to keep the viewers to a somewhat reasonable limit.    It will be in Seattle until only May 23, 2021.

Afterwards, we walked up to Pike Place Market.  There were more people there than we thought there would be.  We went down to Honest Biscuits and picked up a couple of sandwiches.  Darrell tried the Pimento, he loved it.  I had a biscuit with scrambled eggs and chirizo.  We love their gluten-free biscuits.  We took a pack of four home, too.

Here are a few pictures from in front of Honest Biscuits showing the construction going on down below.  

And looking out at the sound...

While walking back to the car in the rain, we had to wind our way amongst the overcrowded tourists, some even without masks.  It was lunchtime at the Market.

We took our sandwiches down to Diagonal Park and sat in the truck and ate them.  Yum.

FIRST VACCINATION

 I got my first Covid-19 vaccination today.  Yoohoo!

Next one in three weeks, same place, same time.  Then maybe, someday,  life will start getting back to normal.

BLOCKS 5 AND 6

Here are Blocks 5 and 6 from the Bryan House Solstice quilt that I'm going to call Eclipse.  They are mirror images of each other.  I used the freezer paper piecing method.

FOUNDATION PIECING

 Today while I visited online with our Monday Brave Patch Group, I sewed some of the scraps from my Solstice quilt onto a foundation backing.

I really enjoy doing this.  It's very relaxing and satisfying.

And I love spending time with this group of ladies.

These are 4" wide strips varying in length from 11" to about 14".  And I don't have a plan for them yet.