Friday, August 30, 2019

I better get this post done now or the day will slip by as it did yesterday. I baked in the morning, went sewing in the afternoon and then we went out to Lund (again) for dinner. We wanted to support our friends Geoff and Scott who were playing their last night of the season.

Sewing was a bit frustrating. I thought I was set with my project already waiting for me at Gail’s. But just as I was going out the door I remembered that I was going to use the blocks for either my ruler workshop or my quilt-as-you-go workshop. In either of those cases the blocks didn’t need to be stitched together. So I ran upstairs and grabbed the container with my miniature in it.

It took no time at all to stitch the miniature blocks together and, of course, I hadn’t brought the fabric for the sashing between the columns. So I sewed together a block that was supposed to be my Leader and Ender for this year. Because so many of the fabric pieces have to match it isn’t working out all that well with the scraps I have cut, but I like the pattern (Shoo Fly) and I’ll continue cutting scraps for it and sewing blocks as I get a chance.

I moved on and trimmed my “real” Leader and Ender project blocks – a postage stamp quilt made with 1.5″ squares. I’m about ready to stitch one block together but I didn’t start it. I was rather daunted when Jesse told me she used more than 10,000 squares. With what remained of the afternoon I did some more embroidery on a card top.

This morning I was baking again. I’ve got two loaves sliced and on plates for the show at the Hall tonight. Pat is doing sound for the show so we’ll be heading out early.

Tomorrow I’ll be out at the Sunshine Musical Festival, possibly in the rain, so I won’t be posting.