Ella Maria Deacon Quilt Blocks

 

This has been an amazing week of hand stitching, movie watching, and snow. We do snow here in Feb in our part of Canada. It is, after all, winter. The calendar may suggest that Spring begins on March 20th, but we had snow on May 9th last year. Yup. Mother's Day weekend. I had the snow tires taken off my car that morning.

I stitched every day for at least 15 minutes and some days 3-4 hours. So, it is not surprising that I completed 5 blocks this week. Most of these I had prepped last summer and fall. It is easy enough to do the prep work. I like doing the prep work. Most had been done on zoom meetings with amazing quilters from around the world as well as some of my family and friends here. I tried doing some machine work one Sat morning but messed up both blocks I was working on so limit myself to doing handwork that requires not much thinking. I cannot talk and stitch at the same time.

This block caused me no end of grief.  

There are several curly-cues in the corners of the original, but I skipped them this time.

 

And I tried, I really tried to put a fussy cut center into the middle, but just could not. 

I did not l like the way it looked. Then considered adding a white circle on top but decided to do it in reverse applique. 

The reason being, I had cut the end of that one petal too short and did not have enough to turn it under. 

Okay. I did that with 2 petals. 

So, I did some unstitching, adjusted them, and appliqued them down again. 

After that, I turned under the ends and did some reverse applique. I usually enjoy reverse applique, but that was a lot of seams to turn under and my circle is not round. At this point, I am calling it done. If I still am not happy about it, after I complete the rest of the blocks, I will revisit it. 

I still have to get the T4 summaries all made up for our 14 farm employees. I have never done this before and I spent a good 2 hours on Fri trying to find the forms to fill out only to discover it already in my downloads. Then I spent the next 2 hours trying to make sense of the monthly Payroll Summaries and printed them all off. That was a lot of paper. I will do all the input by hand first, then into the computer. But, for the life of me, I have no idea, yet, how or where to submit them, other than printing off copies and stapling them to each of the employees' payslips. 

This will be my Slow Sunday Stitching block for today.  

Blessings

Chris

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