This looked like an easy block but once I got stitching I realized I had to do a partial seam. I don’t do those often but luckily I remembered that one of the Guild demos was on this technique and they used this particular block as an example. I was able to find instructions online and it really wasn’t too difficult.
The third mystery clue was posted by the Guild today. I had the first part of it finished before lunch (48 HSTs) and I thought I’d have extra time this afternoon to do another Guild project. Boy was I wrong. I’ve only just finished the other two parts and I’m exhausted.
There will be no more sewing today; a nap may be in order!
I really like this block. Sadly it isn’t exactly as the calendar said it should be. I was so thrilled that I could do those 9-patches really easily and I had enough matching neutrals in the scrap bin on my cutting table that I went to work on it first thing this morning. I thought the pattern was so easy that I didn’t even take the calendar to my cutting or sewing table – I knew how it should go together. Well I didn’t; the 9-patch in the centre should have been a solid green colour (the hen) that matched up with the 9-patches in the corner (the chicks). Fortunately the hens & chicks in the garden are doing just fine without me interfering or confusing things.
I finished the binding on one of my donation quilts this morning and I’ve started quilting another one. I didn’t make this one but brought it home (as a door prize!) from our Community Quilt weekend. It will be very simple quilting and not too many ends to tie in. I don’t have a binding fabric that I’m particularly happy with but it is what I have and will have to do.
I took my car out for a drive this afternoon; I need to do it more often or drive further as every time I go out I wonder if it is going to start. I can’t get in too much distance and I’m getting bored with my normal route. With gas down to $119.9 I could go a lot further if there were some roads!
I know this 100% cotton yarn came with me from Yellowknife. At that time dishcloths weren’t the “thing” they are now and I have no clue what it was originally intended for. With six skeins of it that would be a lot of dishcloths so I went to my shawl pattern once more. The texture and colours were enough of a pattern that it was easy to do it in straight garter stitch. Unlike some of the other shawls I put the edging along all three sides.
