The flannel fabric was taped to the wall after dinner last night and I started playing with block placements. It was very damp – unbelievably humid – it was so damp the air felt like it could have been wrung out here … Continue reading
Clippings from grading the seams of the 30 Patchwork of the Crosses blocks. Never ever again do I leave grading the seams until the end! It took most of the weekend to get this done.There will be more to add … Continue reading
There is going to be a slight delay in making more sunflowers. Why? Because I am determined to finish up my POTC quilt top. To that end, I’ve been adding the cream hexagons to the final six blocks that still didn’t … Continue reading
There are still seven blocks to be completed and pressed, but two of those seven have been started. I’m working on these last ones slightly differently in that I’m starting out with groups of shapes that I think will work … Continue reading
A very orange Patchwork of the Crosses block was made last night. Why am I making more of these? Because last weekend, when I got out the Patchwork of the Crosses blocks I had done and had a good look … Continue reading
For months and months I have been wondering what I would use for the 2″ squares that will be used to connect my Patchwork of the Crosses blocks, some of which were last seen in this photo. And while I … Continue reading
There were actually four more I was thinking of, but one of them got ruled out as there isn’t any chance I could finish it. So now I’m down to three more possibilities for the quilt I work on during … Continue reading
Remember this block? Or this one? How about this one — the very first of the Patchwork of the Crosses blocks I made? And one of the first to which I attached the cream hexagons and purple squares. I have … Continue reading
It took a while, but the cream hexagon frames for the POTC blocks are all ready to be attached to the 10 blocks that are not yet finished. A little more printing of the setting pieces and I’ll have everything I need for the outer edges of the quilt top ready as well.
Now that I’ve got the frames made and ready to attach to the blocks, I’m really quite enthused about working on this quilt again. Stitching cream hexagons to one another endlessly was a real stumbling block for me. Now that this is done, I can almost imagine having the top finished by the spring.
As I type this at around midnight, the snow has just started to fall here although the wind hasn’t yet picked up. They say by morning we will have near blizzard conditions. I’ve taken enough migraine medication to take the edge off, but it’s not gone yet. I’m hoping once the storm is over, the headache will be gone.
Smudge spent much of Tuesday snoozing.
Lester seemed to be almost posing for the camera.
… cream hexagons together, that is. When we took this photo last night, I had 48 left to join. By the time the evening was over, I had finished stitching them into sets of three. So now it’s solely a matter of adding 24 of them around each of the remaining POTC blocks. Getting the cream hexagons stitched was a big hurdle, and one that I could have avoided had I done them as I finished each block rather than left them all to the end. Lesson learned!
We have an enormous winter storm heading toward us. Light snow today but then tonight into Wednesday, a lot of snow and high winds. I’ve been battling a migraine since late yesterday, so the cream hexagon stitching was the perfect thing to work on — just lots and lots of straight stitching, no thinking involved!
Lester decided to curl up and have a snooze.
Smudge in an impossibly cute pose with a teddy bear!
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