Monday, June 22, 2020 (Block 98)

I’m certainly glad that one of my Thursday sewing ladies taught me a new way to deal with those curves. There are so many of them in this block and I never would have got the stitching right. And be honest, could you tell if I had some of those squares turned wrong? Just in case you are wondering they are all correct but I rechecked my alignment with every seam.

I finished the stabilizing on my quilt before lunch. I had a few issues with tension – it worked fine when I stopped last week but this week it was a bit tempermental. I thought I knew how I was going to do the quilting on the blocks but that was before my new quilting book arrived. I looked at the suggestions in the book for a Log Cabin and almost chickened out. I don’t know where this quilt will end up so I decided to give one of their ideas a try.

So far it is going well. I’ll get back to it now before I forget what it is I’m doing.

Sunday, June 21, 2020 (Block 97)

Happy Father’s Day to all, but particularly to my sons-in-law. My grandchildren (and daughters) are lucky to have you in their lives.

It was only recently that I found out that Mum’s Chocolate Angel Food recipe was hiding in the recipe book under Chocolate Vienna Torte. It took me awhile to gather all the necessary ingredients; sometimes we don’t get what we order from the store, and sometimes Pat thinks that white chocolate pudding will work as well as chocolate pudding. I know this won’t taste as good as Mum’s and it certainly doesn’t look as neat as hers but I’ve taste-tested both the cake (from the pan scrapings) and the icing (from the bowl) and I know I’m going to be happy!

Saturday, June 20, 2020 (Block 96)

It was a scrappy day today – and I mean that in the very best sense of the word. My leaders and enders for my pinwheel quilt were a long way from being done so I moved on to a different set of scraps. One of the blogs I follow had a pattern that I really liked and I felt I had most of the fabric I’d need in my scrap bins.

Last night while Pat had his online session I cut out over twenty blocks. I had already gone through my 2.5″ bin so it was easy to pick colours in the lengths I would need. After my daily block was done this morning I started piecing the blocks. I have about 29 blocks finished now, as well as some backing fabric picked out for the quilt. I’ll have to dig a little deeper to come up with fabric choices for the remainder of the blocks but that can wait until another day.

I have a few pinwheels that need to be trimmed and added back into my leader and ender basket for their final seams. Working with scraps leaves a lot of small bits of thread all over. Most of the sewing I’m doing just now involves scraps – my pinwheels, my daily blocks, my cards – so some cleaning should also be on my list for the day.