Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Since my pile of library books is growing – yes, I picked up another one yesterday – I decided on the weekend that this would be a reading week. I had time to read a bit yesterday afternoon but today is the first day that I have intentionally sat down for the afternoon with a book in my hand.

This morning I took care of a couple of phone calls I needed to make and then I did a bit of tidying. I had some scraps left on the cutting table from my Community Quilt, as well as some scraps from my last Alias Grace block. When those were cleaned up I got started on the next Alias Grace block.

I was going through the bin of blocks I already had made to help me decide on a colour for this next block. I noticed that I already had one that looked very much the same as the one I thought I was supposed to be doing. I went through the book and numbered all the blocks and I was one block ahead of where I thought I should be.

I didn’t have a pattern for the King Solomon’s Temple block. I looked through my book of block patterns and didn’t find anything. I looked online and, again, no luck. That meant I had to draw it out and sort out the measurements on my own. I got the centre three rounds done and I think I have the next one figured out. King Solomon was supposedly very wise. If that were the case you would think he’d have left better instructions for his temple.

The snow has stopped and It still looks pretty outside. I’m curled up under a blanket as I read. Now, back to my book.