The lure of starting something new was strong this weekend. I had the whole weekend to myself, as DH was out of town. Lovely to just take care of my dogs and me, eat when I wanted and do things when I felt like it. I actually achieved a few good nights sleep too.

The “stall” part of the weekend was my Morning Glories blocks. I finished off all the color blocks for the flowers (245) and decided that I needed a pFp break. I will do the rest of the green and white pieces once I have the blocks done for my newly started project.

The “start” part of the weekend has been drifting around in my mind for about a month. It all started when I saw this quilt at PIQF.

I was intrigued, and thought about the yards of ombre fabric I had in my stash. I drafted a paper piece foundation pattern in EQ8, thinking about how many I would need and how to go about it. All sort of back burner thinking, as I had lots of other projects going on. I was on the Accuquilt site, looking for a die to cut rectangles on the diagonal, but found that it had been discontinued. Looking through the sale dies, I saw the Washingtons puzzle die. Although it is a BOB (block on board) its finished size is four inches. I had been hoping to make my blocks for the quilt six inches. Here was a way to get the pieces all cut and ready to sew with one push through the cutter. Did I mention it was on sale? I made a good start on the blocks, and have 64 A blocks and twenty B blocks.

I have been stitching on the Consider the Lillies piece too. Last night I found that I was a bit off on the placement of the bird/branch in the corner, which was affecting the flower branch I was trying to sew under it. I then noticed that the flower branch was a half stitch too high, and had to frog it. I think I will leave the bird, and redo the flower branch, as it still fits okay in the corner. It won’t affect the other motifs under it, as it lines up with the border in the right spot.

In my last post I mentioned I had a commercially made quilt/bedspread that needed altering. I did do the work and sent it back to the client. However, I mistakenly cut the wrong side due to a misunderstanding. The quilt was too long for the bed, but too long horizontally, I cut the vertical edge. So now it was still too long but also too short. I felt terrible, and offered to get a new one, but the client declined, but I did anyway. The new one was delivered to me on Saturday, I fixed it correctly Sunday and have it ready for shipping out today. Surprisingly, Amazon was not the fastest or best priced for this, Walmart was. Lucky for me the quilt was still carried by them, Lowes, Home Depot and Amazon. Also lucky that it was a relatively inexpensive one too.

Not much LA quilting was accomplished, I did another row of motifs on RRTI Friday afternoon. I am about half way through it now. I still have to turn it to do the side borders, but I feel like I am making progress.

Be Kind.