Saturday, March 5, 2022

It took until almost noon to finish my cleaning and decluttering tasks. One of my tasks was to clean out a drawer so I thought while Pat had his breakfast clearing out the recipe book drawer would be a good one to tackle. Turns out that even though we never use the recipe books there were very few that we wanted to put in the donation box.

Another fun decluttering task that came up was a clean out of my patterns. I’ve gone through my paper patterns and they’ll need to be done again but today I worked on my digital patterns – quilt-alongs to be precise. I had quite a few that I knew just by looking at them that I no longer wanted to make them. There were also a couple that I still wanted to make but I was missing one or two of the steps for. I had to dive into the internet but, with the exception of one pattern, I was able to find and save all the missing pieces. They were all freebies so no loss for the ones I trashed.

I pulled out my March quilting UFO project and the flannel fabric I purchased for backing. Then I went looking for and found the alternate fabric I wanted to use but I didn’t have enough of it. I did a very quick search online to see if I could get more but I’m hopeful that even had I found some I wouldn’t have made a purchase. The quilt is most likely going to hang so I really didn’t want flannel on the back.

I dug through more fabric and decided I’d try making a back from fabric that was left from the quilt top. There wasn’t any one fabric that was large enough so I knew I was going to have to piece something together. I’ve tried this before and wasn’t very successful but I ended up with four pieces that I thought would make a large enough backing.

But before I could piece them together I wanted to finish the quilting and binding on my crocus project. I had already changed thread colours five times so I wanted to be done with it before changing threads for piecing the back. I’ve got that project ready for hand stitching.

I also managed to get my Farmhouse quilt backing and batting cut, as well as the batting cut for Kathryn’s Spring/Summer tablecloth. The quilt I brought home from the Guild had a lot of extra batting attached but I suspect that was in case it was being done by one of the long armers. I’ve trimmed it up and I know there will be loads of fabric for the backing.

I really wanted to get outside and get the spray basting done today but I’ll have to plan that for tomorrow. It’s a bit early to quit for the day but I’m done!