September 13, 2022
I’m sure somebody, someday will throw Alex a ticker tape parade. Will it be because he just won the Brier or will it be a PGA tournament? Or it could be something completely different but that boy is going to go places!
September 1, 2022
September was another block in my Calendar series that I wasn’t happy with so I went back to the same designer as I picked for August. This block was much easier to put together and the results are much better.
Imagine Kathryn slicing her chicken dinner on her cutting board with a matching chicken below.
August 30, 2022
I thought this was going to be the last of my Splendid Sampler blocks and, in my head, I was already saying I had saved the last card for the best of the recipients. Sorry Ron, but there are still two more left.
I more or less followed the colour combination from the book; it is amazing how much better things look when I don’t just “wing it” with whatever fabric I have in my scrap bin. It is mostly paper-pieced, with a bit of regular piecing added in.
I didn’t particularly care for the calendar block in the series I’ve been following so I found my own – a Rubik’s Cube. I was really looking forward to doing this block but it turned out to be much harder than I anticipated. And in spite of getting the Y-seam all lined up the block is a bit wonky. When I checked with Deloise she suggested I might be able to “quilt it into submission” and that is exactly what I did.
It isn’t perfect but Alex likes it so what more could I want.