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.
10 comments:
Rain - what's that? We haven't seen any for nearly two months in our local area.
I love your colour choices for Gumballs and I'm most relieved that they're fat free, but how it goes together defies my logic abilities. Better you than me!
I've been seeing just a touch of leaf changes here and there too. Your colors for that new project will be really rich and pretty.
I went looking in my quilting bookshelf, sure enough I have that issue. The question now is, what colors. To use? I'm thinking blues, teals, and green. I think I'll sew along with you.
Rain??? Is that the water that drops from the sky??? None to speak of here for all of July and now only.01" so far in August--we have a true dust bowl of a yard!!!
Neat fabrics for gumballs--we all need low and slow days...I am in that mode lately, too. Perhaps all this heat and humidity is enervating me!! [or perhaps I am just having a lazy spell...;)))]
Have a good weekend upcoming--Hugs, Julierose
Oh, Violet’s idea to sew along with you sounds great……just snagged the pattern cut from the magazine on EBay for less than $3 total.
I envy you. I struggle to start a new quilt when I am hand quilting one with another waiting to be machine quilted.
We're noticing it takes us longer to recover from trips. That quilt will be a fun one!
A very unusual atmospheric river dropped a months worth of rain off in British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Utah. We are on anchor in BC and wowser we didn't sleep well for two nights with winds coming from the SE (not desirable when you are in an ancorage protected from NW winds, but open face to the SE. Fortunately it is better today and we are able to continue moving south. Your gumball quilt looks very interesting. I haven't yet figured out the block, nor how many fabrics one should use for it. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing yours finished and I'm confident it will be beautiful. I may go with this pattern for a great niece who wants a purple/black quilt (not my fav, but maybe multiple shades/tone-on-tone would work for gumball) and her brother wants a quilt in blue and green.
Seems like you've gotten settled back into a more normal routine since your trip. I've been attirbuting my slotfhful existence lately to the heat, 100 plus the last few days here. Even inside it's hard to want to do anything. I like your new scrap project. It will be fun to see it come together.
I haven't been on a trip involving a lot of travelling but after two weeks holiday at home catching up on my sewing and some visits I am completely exhausted. I know a lot of the problem is the heat but I think being out of your usual routine is very tiring. I'm looking forward to getting back into my normal everyday groove - until the next holiday
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