This and That

I’m going to try and do a quick blog post on some of the things I have been working on. First and foremost, is income tax. I detest doing it and put it off each year as long as I possibly can. I have piles of paper everywhere, but it is finally done. I’ll take everything to the CPA on Friday. 

In between paperwork, I finished putting the binding on Marian’s quilt.

I quilted it with an antler design, but unfortunately, it doesn’t really show up on the busy fabric. The back is a really pretty foliage print with deer on it. 

My latest baby afghan is nearing completion size.

I don’t have a definite size in mind, but I think it needs 6-8 more rows, and then I’ll lay it out and look at it again. You can see the dye lots on the two skeins I’ve used so far don’t quite match. That’s a shame, but I’m not planning to rip it out. 

I took two Lutheran World Relief quilt kits home to work on. They have plenty of people to do ironing and cutting, and even the tacking, but not too many can actually sew, and they were asking for help. I had time last weekend to get one pieced, and I ironed it Monday and returned it Tuesday.

Easy piecing, and it’s 60” x 80”, so big squares. I’ll get the second one done soon.

There have been a lot of tutorials on YouTube about making baskets out of dish drying mats. I have been buying them when I see them on sale but never got around to making anything until this week.

The sizes on the mats aren’t always uniform so the baskets aren’t the same size. They are cute little baskets, I can think of a lot of uses for them, but I probably won’t keep them. I’m trying to come up with donation items right now, and that’s where these will go. I’m not sure what price to put on them. I’ll have to look around and see what they are selling for.