Powering Through a Blustery Day

Monday I had a dentist appointment so I didn't watch the kiddos.  Note to self appointments set for the middle of the day kind of just mess life up!

 The row by row, had one part left which was to put this silhouette onto the quilt.  Of course I couldn't find the Steam A Seam I know that I have.  So I used the good old butcher paper method.  Let's just say that it took me forever to cut it out. 

Here is the row.  I think I did alright.  I am amassing quite a pile of applique things which need to be sewn.

Recently I saw a blog that talked about making a rag rug.  So of course I had to run off and find the book, because I had oodles of old t-shirts.  The book I found was originally written in the early 90's.  Of course DH being as handy as he is made me the necessary frame.

I needed to figure out what I was going to use for the warp (the strips which go from the top to the bottom).  Dh suggestion you have a bunch of pillowcases which do not have a matching sheets anymore, why don't you use them instead of getting rid of them?  I started to take apart the pillowcases.  Are you aware of how many seams are in a pillowcase?  Especially this pair?  2 sets of stitching per side, plus the over edge? 

Yep took me all evening long.  But I have them apart, probably going to have to starch the bejeebers out of them before I cut them up and start to prep them.  That was my whole Monday! 

Thursday we were getting hit by a pretty wicked wind storm, which meant I didn't need to watch the kids.  I had a plan.  I worked on quilting and finished about 1/2 of a charity quilt.  There are a lot of HST which I think they put together with the bias facing out and it just is not playing well.  After fighting the "stretch" I decided to call it a day and move on to something else. 

I finished up another ribbon star and attacked the final borders for the Ripples and Reflections Quilt.  I decided that I was going to power through the final cutting with the bias angles.

Tada!  This one is off my list, still needs to be quilted, and it will be a bear.  There are a lot of bias edges in this quilt.  This is one of them that you hope that it will "quilt" out.  We shall see. 

I have also been busy cutting out tumblers for my leaders and enders.

I am amassing quite the pile of twosies.  Probably close to enough for about 3 rows so far.

 It has been nice having some time to get things done, even though they are not my favorite things to do.