Wednesday, February 24, 2021

I started my day making masks. I made a lot of masks for everyone in my family at the start of the pandemic and later in the year I made a bunch more that were three layers rather than two. Everyone sent me back masks that I could convert into three layers but it seemed everyone already had enough. I finally remembered to check with Kathryn and apparently Alex had some favourite two-layer masks that needed to be converted. As it turned out I had enough of his favourite fabrics to start from scratch with the three layers and it saved Kathryn having to send masks back. I have seven done now; I added a few extra masks that I thought Alex might like.

The block on my calendar for today is one that I liked the minute I saw last year and I decided then to make a community quilt using the pattern. The calendar’s version is eight inches but I didn’t want to make so many blocks so I doubled it and ended up with sixteen inch blocks. I started the blocks when I was still sewing with my Thursday group but haven’t looked at it since.

I pulled out the bin today. Early in March Stacia, Deloise and I will be doing another virtual sewing session and our theme is donation quilts – this will be my project. I have quite a few fabrics that I pulled from the community quilts fabric bin last year when I decided to make it and I have a few shirts from the thrift store that I use for background.