Tuesday, February 28, 2017

My schedule was so new that yesterday I completely forgot about my “ukulele night” when I wrote my journal entry. I spent over an hour last night learning Swing Low Sweet Chariot; I learned to finger pick it and I learned a couple of alternate strumming patterns. Now if I could just sing well enough I might have “something”. It is fun though and I think, for now, it is more of what I want to be doing than the Ukulele Club was giving me.

Today was a bee day and I took along lots of things to work on – as usual, too many. For the second week in a row I didn’t get anything done on my Bingo quilt. I managed to get the eight flying geese done, part of my Wild Goose Wednesday quilt.

I got the backing pieced for my Celtic Crystals quilt. I hope to be pin basting it tomorrow and, maybe, I’ll be able to get some of the stabilizing stitching done.

Next up was the speaker cover I’m making for Pat. I’ve gone far enough now that I’m pretty sure I got the measurements wrong. I may be able to salvage what I have already done, but if I can’t I’ll complete it and offer it for sale at the quilt show – as a thread catcher or tool bin. And if it doesn’t sell I can use it myself.

I worked on two card tops but neither of them are finished. One needs some bright yellow fabric (which I’ll have to buy); I decided that I wanted to use Steam-A-Seam on the other one and I hadn’t taken it with me. I’m particularly loving the Dresden Plate card. They will be quick finishes and I’ll quilt all four of my March cards on my new machine.

In and around all these other projects I got several more of my Rail Fence blocks done. There was a moment of synchronicity last week when I came across a new setting for a rail fence quilt. I will definitely be using it if I ever get my 500+ blocks done. I haven’t even checked to see if that will be enough, but I know that was the number for the setting I was planning to use.

I’ll start hand stitching the binding on my Blossoms quilt tonight.