I've been making a Sunrise block, pretty much every day since January 1st. If I missed a day, I caught up the next time I was in the studio. Today was the last block needed for this quilt top. The Seattle Sunrise Q1 quilt is a top! It's 70" by 84.5" and needs a good pressing.
I was also sewing the cutoffs, from trimming the blocks to size, together and it formed a really long piece, probably over 100". And I also started just randomly sewing some of the other cutoff parts together because there were so many. I think these pieces deserve to be a quilt of their own. There's still a lot of scraps and I'll keep working on those.
Here's what the daily block would look like before I trimmed it to size. I made them oversized because as I added the curves the blocks would become weird shaped.
I kept really good records of the time of the sunrise each day, the colors I saw and the conditions. I made some forms in excel.
I have three more sheets for the rest of the year. I've been saying that when I finished this first quarter I was done. But, I thought of an idea that I'd like to try. So, I'm going to keep records about the next quarter and make blocks for it.... I think. I just don't want to be tied to making a block every day. And, I don't want to get way behind either. So, we'll see how it goes.
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