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.
Those tops you found are really pretty. So glad you got some rain. That is funny what your Dad said! My Dad used to walk out on our back porch, look at the clouds, and listen to the thunder, and immediately know if we needed to head to the basement. The phrase I remember from him was "going-away thunder" to indicate a storm was past us.
ReplyDeleteI like those blocks you found - it is always nice to find something like that!
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