I am out of a Quandary, or finished with a quandary, fixed a quandary, un-quandaried? I got it all together this weekend. No without a small glitch, I put the two center sections together wrong. It was just one long seam removal and it was all better. The borders were fun to finish, I made them two at a time. I am really happy that there was plenty of fabric in the kit I bought from Fabric Depot, it was a left over from Craftsy at a great price. There was enough yardage to cut all the black border fabrics on grain, and enough colored fabric to cover any piecing mistakes. It’s huge, I think 102″ x 102″, now to get it quilted. I am wondering if I have a backing that’ll work. I think I saw something on sale the other day that may work.

From last week’s creepy monsters, I sewed on to the cute and neutral bunnies and rainbows collection. I started out making two of these, and quickly sold them before they were finished. Now I have enough left overs to make two more, well, I did have to get two more panels, but these are quick and easy. Did I mention the fabrics were on sale? I got the second one finished today. I can quilt them onto one backing, efficient time and product/resource management. I do have to get the Creepy quilt on there first, after I finish the Sparrows. Not much progress was made on the Sparrow quilting. I did come across the panto that I had originally wanted to use for it, aptly named sparrow. I ended up using the feathers, it’s okay, but I should have persevered and found the sparrow one.

More motifs on the CTL cross stitch, I am almost done with this page. Looking ahead there is a big brick house, I had forgotten that this design has one. I seem to remember swearing off red house samplers a few projects ago, after the huge one in the Christmas sampler (Heaven and Nature sing) I did, darn it. I would like to get the frame on the baby sampler, I am debating on whether to add interfacing to the back or not. I am afraid to press this piece with steam, although most of the colors are fast, there is always the weird black or red thread that bleeds unexpectedly.

On a side note. When I started piecing the Bunny Run quilts, I wanted to use the 4-at-a-time method for flying geese. However, the blocks I needed were 2 3/4″ by 5″, not listed in the cutting tables I could find. I asked the AI what size squares I would need to cut and it gave them to me. It was so easy, no math or fudging needed. I want to use it, AI, in the future for figuring out inner border sizes, and other things that my limited geometrical understanding can’t easily do.

Be Kind.