Tuesday, June 23, 2020 (Block 99)

My daisies are so close to being out; I think they just need one day of sunshine. There are a few flowers out but when the daisies are “really” out they fill the beds. We woke up to rain this morning but by noon it seemed like it might be clearing off. But it has been raining quite hard for the last half-hour so I don’t think the daisies will get the sun the need today.

Once the sun does come out it won’t just be the daisies that come out – the weeds are going to be overtaking everything. I thought I might have a chance to do some this evening because Pat has an online engagement but with this rain that won’t happen.

I finished the quilting on my Log Cabin. I was half-done at lunch time but I didn’t expect to be finished today. I changed my mind slightly on how to quilt the last half (because what I had planned wasn’t working) so it went much quicker than expected.

I have several ends to tie and bury so my work for the day isn’t finished yet.

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.