I finished the last small quilt in a series using orphan blocks yesterday and feel I have license to work on a few other UFOs. Whoopee! I haven't made any Dear Jane or Green Tea and Sweet Beans blocks in several months, and of course, there's the Lily of the West quilt I just started last week. I also have a couple of scrappy leaders/enders going, too, along with the bow tie block swap blocks. I always chuckle when people ask me what I'm working on. They are often surprised to hear that usually I have 10 or 12 quilts going at once. That's not untypical for a devoted quilter.
I'll take this 50" x 50" quilt to Bags of Love for kids going into foster care as soon as I finish the little hat I've been knitting for them. I have a bunch of leftover yarn to make a few more hats this fall and winter. I decided not to buy any more yarn (I can't resist the lush colors of wool) until I use up some of my miscellaneous yarn.
The monthly guild "teams" decide the colorways for the blocks we bring for the monthly drawings. I have been making two blocks the same and keeping one. But this year, I've decided to try and make all of the blocks of the month I keep for myself in the same colorway. I'm not sure what that will be yet, but I'm leaning toward blue and white to use some of the many blue scraps in my stash.
I am sure that Marie, the long arm quilter, will be letting me know soon that my Barn Star Sampler is ready because when I saw her last week, it was on the frame. I'll try to cut a binding out for it in the coming week and pick it up next Thurs. But today Deb and I are scheduled for our monthly pedicure and gabfest in the morning, and, in the afternoon, I'm going to the library to help clean up the booksale room with Pam and Martha-Jean. By the time I get home I'll be thinking about what to make for dinner. Black bean bowls?
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I probably have enough left over blocks to do something like that but can never come up with a layout that looks right for a combination of so many different kinds of blocks
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