I did another "oh boogers, I forgot it was Monday" about 2 a.m. on Tuesday. I didn't have much to post so didn't bother on Tuesday.
I finished the Grid Girls mystery quilt.
I did another "oh boogers, I forgot it was Monday" about 2 a.m. on Tuesday. I didn't have much to post so didn't bother on Tuesday.
I finished the Grid Girls mystery quilt.
But I am making progress. I finished the first border on the Grid Girls quilt and added the second border. The final border is pinned to the quilt (no picture). Hopefully I'll finish it tomorrow.
The block quilting is finished on sampler quilt. Now I have to turn it three times to finish the borders. Don't you get your wish if you turn the quilt three times? I'm really happy with the quilt motif I chose for the blocks.
A friend sent me this quilt pattern catalog from 1928.
I love the quilt on the cover.
Some of the block designs.
And the price list! Twenty-two cents a yard for calico fabric. Fifteen cents for the pattern. $.35 - $2.00 for finished blocks - the double wedding ring block was the most expensive at $2. Complete quilts $25-$45.
I had three bucks in my backyard this evening. They don't like to be too close to each other. This is the largest one, I've shown his picture before.
He has gotten much braver. He is laying on the rug right outside my slider window. He didn't move when Mom went to her chair with her walker.
Not much happening here.
I dug out a UFO and started adding the first border.
Luckily, neither mom nor I got very sick. Seemed more like a mild cold than a "virus". Regardless I did spend a lot of last week sleeping.
Do you ever wonder why, after over 25 years, you still quilt? Sometimes I do. Especially if I have to use my brain to make the quilt. The whale panel quilt required me to use my brain.
That really hurt.
The panel was larger than the panel in the pattern, so I had to change the approach to making the top and calculate all the border dimensions.
My poor brain.
I got a few things done last week...
As I was getting ice a huge black spider ran across the kitchen counter straight toward me and jumped down at my feet...I may have screamed. Loud. Have I ever mentioned how much I hate spiders!
Now on to more pleasant things.
I have been cutting scraps for over two weeks now and I feel like I haven't made a dent. I also had to stop for 3-4 days because my wrist and elbow were yelling loudly.
The big Home Goods bag is down to this...
Not sewing or cutting and not spending a lot of time on the computer allowed me to start and finish the most recent Robert Crais book.
Quilting on the long arm didn't bother my wrist so I finished quilting the candy wrapper quilt.