Friday, January 18, 2019

I’m in charge of lunch today (at our Thursday group mini-retreat) so yesterday morning I got a soup ready for the crock pot. I originally planned to just prep the meat but Pat suggested it might be easier to make the soup and then just heat it up in time for lunch. When the soup was cooking I boiled the eggs and fried the bacon for the spinach salad that I was adding to the supper menu last night. All of that took more of my morning than I intended so I was really scrambling to get strips cut for the log cabin I wanted to work on.

Jessie called just after I arrived at Gail’s to say she had a wicked headache and was going back to bed. I took my Farmer’s Wife along for Show and Tell as I had sashed the rows at several of our Thursday sessions. So I worked on my log cabin blocks until Jessie arrived around five. The ladies were very impressed and insisted it go up on the large design wall in Gail’s studio.

As Gail looked at it more closely she saw a couple of blocks that she thought might have been put together wrong. No worries, in 111 blocks I didn’t really care that maybe one or two weren’t perfect.

But the more she looked at it she noticed that on two of the sides the last block in the row was missing sashing. How on earth could I have made that mistake? At first I thought I would just leave it but the more I thought about it I decided that I was going to have to fix it. I guess it’s good that the error was found before I had it quilted.

I couldn’t get to sleep last night for thinking about the quilt and I was awake again at five thinking about it. I’ve packed up my seam ripper and the fabric. I may tackle the problem today, although I might be better off doing it on my own rather than in a group.