Tuesday, June 9, 2020 (Day/Block 85)

Today’s block should have been an easy one but somehow I managed to get one row attached upside down. Does it mean I’m improving if I noticed my error before I took a photo? These aren’t the colours the calendar photo used but I couldn’t help but think of our drives “over West” to see how the crops were doing so I added a bit of green.

Did I ever post this photo of a wall hanging I made at our last Thursday group retreat? Today I pieced the backing for it. I generally don’t like a pieced backing but I had strips left from the panels I used on the front so wanted to use them up. If I align everything properly the quilt could almost be reversible (no guarantees on that though). I’m sure no one will notice there are not one, but three, Eiffel Towers on the back.

And here is the real thing. This shot was taken from the plaza across the street from the Tower. You had to be quite a ways back in order to get the whole thing in the photo.

Monday, June 8, 2020 (Day/Block 84)

The day has gone really quickly. I wasn’t up and about until 8:30 so everything was late getting started. My daily block wasn’t finished until noon even though I was able to pull most of the four-patches from my scrap bins.

Last night, when we took delivery of several packages of prawns from a friend, I told Pat I would use the last of the apples in the freezer for a crisp for dinner tonight. At some point during the night I thought I had already finished the last bag but didn’t bother checking. As I was having lunch on the deck I noticed Pat across the street chatting with the neighbour. He had a bag in his hand; dare I hope that it might be rhubarb?

I had a few cards to quilt this afternoon – three of them were easy and the last one gave me a few problems but I worked through them and I’m caught up for June cards. The library called as I was finishing up to say I have another book waiting for me. These books are like small presents as I have no clue what they are sending me; I know that I’ve ordered them at some point but I guess with the isolation going on people are getting things read and returned so they are available to someone else.

Although I have more quilting I could tackle today I’ll stop for now and go make my rhubarb crisp! I still haven’t looked to see if I have that one bag of apples in the freezer. While I wait for the crisp to bake I’ll do some reading – I’ve barely started my 700-page book and who knows what is in store for me after tomorrow’s pickup.

Sunday, June 7, 2020 (Day/Block 83)

A little accounting, my daily block, some reading and some cross stitching – all that adds up to a good day in my books.

Saturday, June 6, 2020 (Day 82)

It’s Saturday so I did exactly what was scheduled – I dealt with scraps. My daily block is scrappier than I would normally make it but I had the half-square triangles already made (from previous scraps), as well as those two-patches. All that needed to be cut were the borders.

From those scraps I moved on to auditioning my pinwheels for the next rows on my scrappy quilt. Before I squared them up I added border rows to the previous two rows of pinwheels. I thought I might have to purchase fabric for the sashing between the rows but I found some that will work just fine. The next two rows of pinwheels are squared up and matched so they will be my leaders and enders for next week.

I finished off the day but cutting up a few of the fabric scraps that were laying on my cutting table. I still have some left to do but I’m tired and I know they will still be there next week when I have another scrappy day planned.