Weekend Update

Oh my, where to start? Betty and I went to garage sale Saturday. We normally don’t go to garage sales, but her sister texted her and said they had a lot of fabric. Well, ok. Off we went. I bought a bag full for $4.50. I failed to take a picture of it; I’ll do that later today. 

I worked on the picket fence border I want to put on my Round Robin quilt. It’s slow going. Since I decided to do scrappy, I feel like the cutting took longer than I had hoped. I have been putting them in stacks of ten. 

I need around sixty total. I want to get to the point where I can at least get a side sewed on so I can see if I am going to like it. I’m pulling colors from the focus fabric. The one in the star centers.

I straightened up my sewing space a little and found this:

Two tops I made and never finished. I think I got stalled out on borders. They are really too small for anything except baby quilts. I’m a little more motivated to make some bigger quilts, especially since I dropped off the ones for the Day1 graduation project. I feel like I want to get a few more made while my motivation is high. I ended up using the two small tops to make one pretty good sized top.

It’s currently 54” x 72”, but I want to add a couple of borders. I got the inner border cut out. It will be black solid, and the outer border will be a black and white print. I want to get the borders on this week. I found another top that I want to finish, but it will also need borders to make it bigger. 

I think I will remove that dark pink strip between the panel and the charm squares and replace it with a strip of orange. I’m still thinking, though.

The best news: It rained yesterday! It was supposed to rain Saturday, and it never did. I had a splitting headache all day—that happens to me with extreme barometric pressure changes—so I thought sure it would rain, but it didn’t. Sunday morning it was thundering a lot and rained a little. I checked the rain gauge and it was about 1/8”. My dad used to say “We got two inches of thunder, and a half-inch of rain.” Haha. He said a lot of funny things. Later in the day, it started raining hard and rained quite a while. I had 1-1/2” in my gauge. Thank God for that. We needed it so badly. We could use quite a bit more, and maybe will get some Wednesday, but probably not enough to alleviate the drought conditions.