RAINBOW OVER WHITE CENTER

 An unusual sight!  A rainbow spotted over White Center.  It was beautiful.

LAST OF THE NINE-PATCHES

I've been working on making the nine-patches for the Pi quilt on and off the last week or so.

Today I made the last of them.  Yoo-hoo!

The last few rows still need to be sewn together.  

I ordered some black and white fabric with numbers for the backing.  It should be here soon. In the meantime, I think I'll make a legend to go on the back to explain what's happening on the front.

ALL THE COLORS

Jelly and I went for a nice walk in Lincoln Park this morning.  We started at about 7am and it was dark. There's not too many folks in the park at that time of the day either.   I had to use the flashlight for the first half.  On the way back I encountered a suspicious young man acting strangely so I turned around and backtracked.  He gave me a good scare.  He didn't follow me, but it made me think again about being alone in the park like that.

 Back at the studio, I cut and arranged the rest of the colors for the last of the rows for the Nine-Patch Quilt.

Now it's just making all of the number blocks...

MORE ROWS

 I cut a bunch more colors to add to the Nine-Patch Pi quilt.

HOMEWORK

 We had homework from Sarah Nishiura's Workshop - we were to take a simple block, change something about it and arrange it in different ways.

I started with a Churn Dash block.  I changed the two-patch to a four-patch.

I elongated the block and alternated it with it's mirror image:

I colored some of the squares in a rainbow circle.  I found it to be too confusing though.

I re-colored it with the colors being in a mirror image rotation.  This is better, but...

It was very time-consuming to make all of these drawings.  But I found it meditative and it gave me time to think about different options along the way.

I tried to do the same thing in Prequilt, but it wasn't possible.  I didn't see a way to make different sized rows.

58/100

I couldn't do much of the work that needed to be done on the deck, so Darrell was again, on his own.  He made a template to cut the curve into the ends of the deck and then trimmed them and routed a round-over on the ends.

The dogs really like the new deck.

I was busy in my studio, first I spent a little time making more triangle blocks from my scrap bucket:

Then I made the binding for and sewed it onto the Baby Pi quilt.

The back of Baby Pi

A ROW IS DONE

I got the blocks made for the first row of the Pi Quilt.

Then I made the half square triangle squares for the next row.

PI COLORS

I started working on my bigger version of the Pi Quilt.  I'm cutting out pieces of the colors and putting them up on the wall.  I want to get the colors sorted out before I start making the blocks.

Of course, I made the 3.14 first.  Here we go.  It will be 18 rows down.  I've got a ways to go, and of course, all of the rows won't fit on my work wall.

LITTLE PI TOP

Here are ten of the ten rows done, but not all sewn together.  Once I got all of the nine-patches done I had to make the zero blocks remade.

Hopefully, I'll get the rest of the rows sewn together tomorrow.

It still needs a good name.

MORE PI

I got more of the rows done on my little Pi quilt.  When I went to add a zero block I realized I had cut them all too small.  I'm going to make them later.  I don't want to disrupt my rhythm.

Here are six of the ten rows, almost done.

WORKING ON IT

I started making the blocks for my little Pi quilt.  It's going together very well.  Here are four of the ten rows.

SETTING DECIDED

Wow, I've gone round and round about how to set the blocks.  I used Electric Quilt to try out several options, but then just resorted to putting them up on the wall.

I settled on this:

I had to make a few more blocks and the cornerstones of the black and white.

ON THE ROAD - TUESDAY (AGAIN)