Low Battery

Good morning, my friends. It's dark as I'm writing, although it's well after sunrise. Clouds moved in last night, and it rained a little this morning. We're told we could get about a half inch of rain, which would be great. After several hot days in a row, a good wetting down would work wonders for the landscape and green things up.

I was lazy again yesterday. My only excuse is that I'm still recovering from our trip. On a positive note, I actually did a little housework yesterday...emphasis on "little" part of that sentence. It certainly wasn't enough to account for my sloth. I suppose it was a day best described as "low and slow."

When I made my way to the sewing room, I first cut and sewed a single seam to make a back for the Girls' Getaway quilt.

There is a stack of quilt tops and backs stacking up in the sewing room. Probably they won't get sandwiched for quilting before the end of the year. In the meantime, I still have several sandwiched quilts to be quilted. 

When that was finished, I got started on the Gumballs quilt. As a reminder, it's a pattern I picked up from Stitchin' Heaven. I could swear this was a free pattern when I acquired it. There is a charge now where I've linked to it. I'm also told by a few of you that it appeared in a magazine at one time. Unless the internet is lying to me, it would have been in the McCall's Quilting April, 2008, issue, which would have been before I learned to quilt. In any case, it'll look something like this when I'm finished with it. (I hope I live that long.)

I'm using my red, pink, and purple scraps for this. The first step was to cut twenty 4-7/8" squares. There are ten here. I had to cut ten more when my math skills failed me. It happens.

From there, I turned them into 20 half square triangles.

Next, I was to cut twenty 2-1/2" squares to make five 4-patches. I'm using my itty bitty scrap bins for these. After I'd cut two, my battery ran low for continuing on with this. I decided to call it a day. 

Most everything I've worked on lately has required cutting multitudes of little pieces, and I think I ran out of energy for it. I'll get back to it today, and I'm hoping I'll get some blocks made up.

Back upstairs, I noticed this.

Fall is coming, my friends. It's beautiful here in the Pacific Northwest when the leaves start to change. Somehow it seemed to fit with my day. 

Today's agenda includes a couple of easy housekeeping chores, and then I'll get back to my sewing. With rain coming, it'll be a good way to spend the day.