TUESDAY BLOCK 45

 Cheryl was back today to lead us in making the 45th block of her Quilters Playcation 2024.

It's a ladder - and mine looks like a ladder.

And, I got another month of blocks made for the SeaMQGBOM2024.

NOVEMBER EIGHTEENTH

 It's Darrell's birthday today.  I took him out to lunch at Easy Street Records in West Seattle.  We've never eaten there before today.  So, I took my sketchbook to record the event.

I spent the rest of the day in my studio catching up on some sewing.  I got another month's blocks of the SeaMQGBOM2024 made.

CATCHING UP ON BOM

 I haven't been doing the Seattle Modern Quilt Guild's Block of the month lately.  

I made the blocks that were released a few months ago today.

I needed practice making inset circles, so here they are:

They turned out so well, it made me think I should get back to work on the Dalek.

JOE PROJECT

 I tuned into Joe Cunningham's Quilt Freedom Workshop.  His special guest was Pat Pauly.  I just love her work.

In the last part he showed us how to make this little block. 

Well, mine's a little different from his.  But I did use two fabrics that don't 'go together' like he asked.

LITTLE MAT

 I finished the little scrappy mat I made the other day.

I hand-quilted it in straight lines in the big-stitch style.

MAKING ART

 I've joined an online community, Watch.Learn.Play, organized by Andrea Chebeleu.  We meet regularly on zoom and paint, draw, collage and play.

Today, we painted big and made marks.

MAKING BEAN SOUP

I was watching the latest issue of Quiltfolk's BOM Break the Rules and making bean soup.

 

SCRAP PLAY

 I did some cleaning and putting away of stuff in the studio this morning.  I even managed to cull some things out, which can go to the Goodwill. 

When it got to what to do with the scraps that are in my 'project bowls' (bowls where I keep the scraps of quilts I'm working on) I slowed down and got distracted.  

The bowl that contained the little scraps from the Trinkets quilt, which are from Alison Glass' Kaleidoscope Collection and are a little more loosely woven, I decided to just start sewing them together.  I contined sewing on them when Brave Patch Monday Sewcial started.  I sewed and fitted and sewed and fitted them all together, eventually, with only 6 little pieces left over.

It's about 13" by 11-3/4" - I think I'll make a little table mat out of it.  So cute.