QuiltsnCats

90 degrees today! What happened to Spring?? I'm not ready for hot weather yet. To be honest, I'm never ready for it. It can stay Spring and Fall forever and make me really happy. This week I've been making the corner blocks for the center medallion of the 365 Challenge. To be perfectly honest, I cheated on this Corner 3 below and didn't do the mitered corner. Half square triangles give the same result, are faster, and use less fabric. When I opened the bedroom window yesterday I was greeted with the most marvelous fragrance. so with the help of a walking stick (my back is still not back to normal and I'm hobbling like the old lady that I am) I ventured out t the backyard. I want to bottle the combined fragrance. Orange Blossom Pink Jasmine Lilac Apothecary Rose Pittosporum Tobira I

Strippin' Today was spent on cutting and labeling 60 different strips for the Gypsy Wife quilt. Maybe. The materials list on the back of the book said 2 inch strips. Inside the book said 1 ½ inch strips. I've also found a few other discrepancies in measurements. I'm thinking something was lost in the translation from metric to decimal. There are a few 1 inch strips and a few 2 inch strips but the greater majority , about 55, are supposed to be either 2 inch or 1 12 inch I hope I picked the right size. If I chose wrong there are enough that I can tie them together and hang myself. The final two

It's really pouring now. Quilt projects, not rain. In addition to the 365 Challenge, Circa 2016, Westering Women, my Civil War sewing group, the new Jo Morton book, and Gypsy Wife, the new Jo Morton Little Women Club has started. Just a month ago I was puttering around cleaning up the sewing room wondering what to do next. Now the sewing room looks like a quilt shop exploded and I'm wondering how to get it all done. I'm happier now; once again life has purpose. Unfinished projects are immortality, right? You can't leave something unfinished. This is one of my treasures. It's a Johnson and Clark Improved New Home sewing machine from 1868-1870. She sews a beautiful stitch.