Lotsa Blocks

Good morning, my friends. It was a crazy day grocery shopping. It seemed everyone in town was there to collect on those quadruple fuel points. We grabbed everything we needed and made our escape as quickly as possible. We made two more stops in town, but then we were home just after noon. We had our lunch and we each took naps, and then I could get back to my sewing. As I've said many times, life seems to be a series of obstacles getting between me and my sewing.

Smitty was my helper cat yesterday.

With his help, I quilted the remaining three blocks for Grandpa’s Bridges.

Before quitting for the day, I changed out my thread to a different color.

Then, I checked my tension and stitched the first of many straight lines. I’ll endeavor to get the block borders stitched today. My body only allows me to quilt for one hour at a time, and so it’ll depend on how long that takes. I might have to take two (or more) days to do that.

And then, I made my daily alottment of two blocks for the Zebra. These are the first two blocks for the fifth of six rows. 

There was some happy mail today. First, I received the backing fabric for the Zebra quilt.

Also, my quilting fairy godmother, Ila, sent me a care package. There were some embroidery kits included. The one is cross-stitch on linen. Floss was included with this.

Here’s the pattern…it’s a little easier to see.

Also, a couple of Aunt Martha’s…one for kitties, one for bears. Cute.

And then these cats to cut out and sew. I need to take this apart and study it a little more. Thank you, Ila.

So that was a good day of sewing and mail. There’s one easy to-do on my list for today, but otherwise, it’ll be a mostly sewing day. Happily, we still have some leftovers for dinner, and so it should be an easy-going day.