Sunday, July 4, 2021

I finished my last load of laundry this morning. It has been a slow process as I’ve only been doing one load a day and hanging it on the line to dry. I didn’t want to heat the house up by running the drier, but for those things I did need to dry (like the load I forgot to bring in until the night dampness moistened it again) I ran the drier on a low-heat setting.

I didn’t really have a plan for the day but I had a clue cut for my Laundry Basket mystery so I spent the morning finishing that. I’ve got seven out of ten blocks finished so I’m getting there. When the blocks are finished I’ll take them to Texada to put on the design wall before sewing on the borders. Each clue shows you where on the whole quilt those particular blocks will go so it will be complicated to get them right unless I have a system.

The first five clues are on the floor of the room opposite my sewing space but there is no way I can pick them up, transport them, and get them in the right order again. So I came up with a system; I’ll keep the blocks from each clue in a bag along with the layout and I won’t even attempt to put the blocks in order until I have the design wall. That method has worked for the last two clues I’ve finished. Getting to the first five clues will be difficult because they are buried under a pile of quilt tops waiting to be sandwiched.

I realized today that all those quilt tops need pieced backings and some of them need to have a border added. So my afternoon project was to see how many layers I could get through.

As it turns out, not so many. The first layer I picked up (the last one I laid down) was my July UFO – a mystery quilt I started in October, 2018. I bought some backing fabric for it yesterday and I managed to get the backing pieced so it is ready to be sandwiched.

The second layer is my June UFO – a quilt top and two table runners. I’ve managed to get a border on two sides of the quilt top but it is too warm upstairs now so I’m going to quit for the day. At least I know what I’ll be doing tomorrow.