Hubby & I went to the "Blast from the Past" car show in Salina this morning. There were some really cool cars there. Didn't take any photos though. Then off to lunch at Wingers in Richfield. I highly recommend their Waffles. They were light & fluffy. Hubby had the waffles with chicken breasts, I had the waffle with bacon. We will definitely go back for the waffles. They were soft enough for me to chew (still have some healing going on where the tooth was taken out in readiness to put the implant in). Hardware store and then home. Finished sewing my scrappy blocks & decided to set them on point so cut out newspaper to see what size half square triangles would look the best to make the blocks on-point. Two of the main blocks are done & the rest of the half square triangles are cut out. Taking a break to check email messages etc. I hope to have the remainder of the blocks finished this next week. Tomorrow after church I will finish a little boy receiving blanket & burp cloth so I can start the next one for our new (coming soon) granddaughter. Life is good.
Used 5" squares to make half square triangle blocks then used the "Balkin Puzzle Block" pattern to put them into some sort of design order. Added the half square triangles to set the blocks on point. Will post finished quilt photo at a later date.
Grandpa had to get this for little "Whosit". I love Eeyore. Even if this one is blue with a pink bow on the tail!
Quilt Tip of the Day: If you have several bobbins wound with different colors of thread you can use them up when making scrappy quilts. Chances are you will have more than a few of those colors in the scraps & you will soon have empty bobbins ready for your next sewing project!
I'm so jealous that you actually accomplished things today. This morning I opened up my rolled packs of 10" squares, found the ends were all wrinkled so now I have to iron them before I can continue. I never got past the *saying bad words* part before I stomped off and found a good book to read. LOL!
ReplyDeleteIron is a 4 letter word! But a necessary evil if you sew. What do you plan on doing with the 10" squares (layer cake)? I use them to do a "split layer cake" pattern that I watched on the Missouri Star Quilt Company tutorials. I have made a couple of them. Quick and easy to do. What colors?
ReplyDeleteDirk made 2 Quilt Hanging Rods with shelves for our bedroom over the bed. I'm making 2 small wall quilts. Each one will only be 36" square so I have to cut down the squares. Still haven't decided what design to use though. I've got such a back-log of sewing that I may just do small squares and let the colors be the design. The backs will be Christmas designs so all I have to do it turn them around. :)
ReplyDelete..... and the squares are not all perfectly 10". LOLOL Good thing I've got new, sharp scissors.
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