See this? This is the last grey block, finished and attached to it's row. Yay!
Saturday, June 28, 2025
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Whose Bright Idea Was That?
I didn't pay close attention where the pins were and managed to press the iron directly over the pin. It promptly melted and adhered itself to the fabric.
Seriously. Why make pinheads that melt at the cotton setting?
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Trust the Process
I'm on a roll with the Midnight Garden quilt. I dithered briefly about the edge blocks before plunging ahead with my original orientation. I've panicked a few times thinking I sewed the corner to the wrong spot or cut the block the wrong way.
I keep telling myself: Trust the process.
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Adding Corners
The Midnight Garden star blocks are finally getting their corners attached. Normally I'd attach the four corners to a block and move onto the next blocks. In this quilt, however, I'm attaching one corner to four different blocks at a time. I attached the first handful of corners one set at a time. This week I tried doing two at a time and briefly panicked when it appeared I sewed a corner to the wrong block. Each kaleidoscope foursome is unique, but it turns out a few of them look really similar.
Whew.
Friday, June 6, 2025
A Void
You wouldn't think an empty spot on my design wall would be cause for celebration but trust me, it is. This hole indicates my first completed block in the Midnight Garden quilt. More importantly it means I'm no longer avoiding this quilt (my shoulder and this quilt have both been a pain since mid-March).
Thursday, May 29, 2025
I Like Thursday: Treasures
First up - last week I saw a deer very cautiously step out of the woods into the side yard. I suspected she was being extra cautious because she had a fawn. I was right! Can you see it in that photo? Rob and I were amazed at how TINY it was. And it was so wobbly and unsure of itself, we figured it had to be newborn.
We saw both of them a few days ago (I see Mama haunting the edges of the yard
almost every day). Baby has grown a lot already!
Thursday, May 8, 2025
I Like Thursday: Trimmings, Trails and Trials
Thursday. The weeks have been flying by lately. Sharing some
of the good stuff with LeeAnna and friends at
I Like Thursday.
Thursday, April 17, 2025
I Like Thursday: Some History - Ancient and Otherwise
When am I not busy?? It's time to catch up with LeeAnna's I Like Thursday with some good things that happened recently (distract you from your doomscrolling for a bit).
My mother and I met up with some friends at the Harvard Art Museum a few weeks
ago. I was impressed with the size of the Grecian wine cups. How
full did they fill them? I guess if you're too drunk you couldn't drink
out of the flat ones? You may have to enlarge to read the quote that was
on one display - but I found it rather humorous.