Tuesday, March 2, 2021

I went to the fabric shop as soon as it opened this morning but I wasn’t able to find the fabric I wanted. I had pretty much given up on getting anything when I spied a display on the top of one of the cabinets. It was a decent match but there was just short of a metre on the roll. I bought it all.

When I got home I rejigged my pattern so that I could incorporate different backgrounds into the quilt but not waste the three blocks I had done. Sadly that meant I had to reverse stitch most of them in order to put them back together with the new blocks (not yet made) so they fit into the pattern. It also means that all the half-square triangles need to stay together as the focus fabrics in each block need to be the same. I’ve got three of the blocks back together so I’m caught up to where I was yesterday!

As I was putting together the first block I realized I didn’t have a leader and ender project. So I took some time out to draw out the pattern I’m hoping to have for my postage stamp quilt. On paper I like it but there are a lot of tiny pieces to put together to make a 12-inch block. I thought I might have time to get a sample block done today but no such luck.

A day or two ago when I told Pat I was doing a second day of clean up he asked me what I was avoiding (he knows me well). As a matter of fact I am not avoiding anything; now that I have the threads pulled out for my quilting project I’m anxious to get at it.