Wednesday, April 3, 2019

I’ve been busy all day but almost nothing is completely done. I managed to finish a small card/gift but it didn’t turn out very well. I will consider re-making it at some point, but not today.

I trimmed the blocks that I made yesterday for my community quilt. In order to hang them on my design wall I had to take down my Thursday project. But that’s okay because I had to get things ready for tomorrow anyway.

One of my UFO challenges from last month was laying on the floor in the “other” room so I got that put away in a bin. I’ll take it with me to the Retreat in a couple of weeks. I thought I might get a few more of the clues printed and some fabric cut but that didn’t happen.

I brought back some cross-stitch blocks from Texada; my goal is to have fabric blocks and these cross-stitch blocks incorporated into a quilt. I had more cross stitching done than I remembered, but only one fabric block has been made. I spent some time drafting a couple of other blocks; I’m having trouble finding block patterns that match the cross-stitch patterns so I have to design my own. They won’t be a perfect match but they will be close enough.

I was tempted to sit and knit this afternoon; it’s a rainy day and I felt like relaxing. Instead, I dived in and got our income tax papers ready for the accountant. It took all afternoon but with it done I can cross another task off my list.

I’m going to spend the evening knitting and watching some Father Brown on Netflix.

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

I started on the first of my April UFO Challenges at the bee today. It is a community quilt that I started last year. The Guild workshop was meant to teach us the accordion-style for making HSTs (Half-Square Triangles); I missed the workshop and never did figure out the way to do it. I do, however, know how to make HSTs in other ways and I managed to get quite a few of them done at a Community Quilt workshop later that year.

The pattern I was using was from a book that put smaller 2″ HSTs together with larger HSTs to form a pattern. I didn’t particularly like the way my scrappy version was turning out; maybe that is why it was set aside.

Not long ago I saw another setting on one of the blogs I follow. I liked her arrangement and when I saw that this project was my UFO for the month I decided to try it her way.

But I already had the larger HSTs sewn and I wanted to incorporate them into the quilt so I used a combination of the two patterns. I’m quite happy with it and I will enjoy spending a month of Tuesdays with the project.

Sometimes procrastination is a good thing.