Thursday, November 8, 2018

I spent all morning re-thinking and re-cutting fabric for my half-square triangles. I’m following a pattern now and it needed a lot more than I had originally planned on making. The quilt will end up smaller than the one in the book but it will be plenty big enough for a donation quilt. I was glad that I had several pre-cut scraps in the sizes I needed.

The first of Splendid Sampler’s Sew-the-Book blocks were released today. I intended to package the block up to take with me but instead of one block, or maybe the two I expected, four new blocks were released. At four blocks a week I’m going to have a hard time keeping up but the organizers reminded us today that it is not a race, it is a journey.

I worked on sashing my Farmer’s Wife Sampler blocks today – two more rows done. I have one more long row to do (13 blocks) and then each row gets smaller. I still need to add the cornerstones and sashing between the rows but I’ll keep this as my Thursday project until I see a need to speed things up.

I have all my projects packed, hopefully all my tools, and a few treats. We’re off to Texada on the 8:30 ferry tomorrow – I expect to be back on Sunday afternoon. I’ve decided NOT to take my iPad with me so I’ll be completely off-line for the weekend; it worked at the lake so I think I will be able to manage for a few days.