Accidental New Project

So I may have accidentally started a new project. It was not on my radar nor did I intend to start it. Now don't tell pouty Lucy that she may have to take a back seat again.

I was minding my own business today, auditioning reproduction fabrics for a couple more Lucy blocks and, dog gone it, so many of the design elements are just a bit too big to fit nicely into the one inch elongated honeycomb paper shapes that I am using. Now, don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE-LOVE-LOVE English Paper Piecing. I am even going back to England in the spring for a family wedding. Now that is another story. 

So auditioning fabrics. I have them spread out all over the place here today. 

And then I chanced to read Barbara Schafer's blog post about the Savery Friendship Star Quilt that she is planning to make. 

And then SUDDENLY a thought pops into my head - girl, you have a whole package of those 60 degree  diamond paper shapes you bought more than 20 years ago anticipating making something out of them some day and today is the DAY. 

AND, if that is not coincident enough, I also have a big bag of one and a half inch hexagon papers.

 And if that is not enough, the see-through acrylic templates are in the BAG. And they all sort of fit together. Sigh. I had taken time recently to put all the EPP papers I have had in various location around this room into one nice neat, labeled box. That is why I recall having them and knew exactly where to lay hand on them. 

So, while I have all this fabric still on the tables for all the world to see, I could cut out a few, say 49 sets of stars. Well, maybe less. I had been lamenting not being able to showcase some of the incredibly beautiful repro prints I have been collecting for a few years. 

Maybe,  just maybe the 3 inch diamond shapes are a bit big, but a quilt will rise up out of the bins and fly onto the design wall.
I can FUSSY cut to my heart's content and see what happens. These blocks will get appliqued down onto a background square possibly. 

Some quilters actually make a practice block or two to see if they like it before actually starting a new quilt. I just dive right in IMPULSIVELY since that is what I do. and I bought one of the new Sentimental Stitches Sweet Sixteen BOM starting the first Friday of Sept. More on that later. 

In the meantime, I wrote up my to-do list before going to bed late last night instead of mid morning when I woke up. Had luncheon date with almost 16 year old Ava and we went to the Dutch Mill Store which is our secret shopping place and spend a pile of $$$ on new kitchen gadgets, jewelry, puzzles, and other stuff.  The Corn and Beans blocks are all in a pile awaiting their turn to be sewn into groups of 4 before deciding on the final layout. And the Wedding Quilt lost it's place in the queue. Again.

I ended up putting all the fabric back into the bins and onto the shelf and pulled out my journal to write. The Write With God daily group started back up this week and my commitment is to show up. They changed the time to 12 noon my time and it is for 33 minutes. That's a nice length of time to write. Got a new hard drive in my desktop computer. Cannot locate 10 years of photos. And there are bobcats on my lawn making noise and  moving dirt just outside my window distracting me to no end. More on that next time.

Blessings,

Chris

Tuesday To-Do List

 I appreciate this group where I can ramble on about my dreams and goals and plans. Even the ones I actually follow through on. I completed all the things on my last 2 to-do lists and feel pretty good about that. This week's list has a few more things on it.

1. The new EPP papers from Paper Pieces arrived so I can play with them by glue basting the pile of already cut white hexies for the sashing and corner units for Lucy. I also got three shapes for Winderemere. FedEx came to the door twice and I paid the import tax. 
2. Stitch together one Lucy block at the Q@F online meeting Sat morning. I did not touch her for a whole week. I am so proud of my self control. 
3. Write 3 times this week. This includes blog writing, journaling, and book writing as well as responding to comments and writing emails. 
4. Clear my tables of their clutter. Where does it all come from? 
5. Bright Jane. The RSC colour for January is dark blue. I have 5 blue blocks to make. These have been prepped and ready to go for several years. It's only 5 little 4 1/2 inch blocks. They will be foundation pieced.
6. Stitch for 15 minutes at least 6 times this week. That seems to be the pace I am doing right now. Need to have some wiggle room. 
7. Continue to ignore the Wedding Quilt. I succeeded this past week. Now to keep the momentum. 
8. Resist the temptation to join in the SAHRR. I put it on my 2023 calendar a year ago. But how can I put time into something new when I have so many other things I want to do?  Not going to go there in my thoughts. 

Need a picture. My next Lucy block. 

This one is a bit fuzzy but then, so are my eyes these days. I went for a pre-op appointment with the eye surgeon today getting ready for cataract surgery. I have been on this pursuit for nearly a year and will have to wait a bit yet. They will not do the procedure until after I get back from Australia in April since I will not be allowed to fly for 2-3 months after wards. I got that memo. But not being able to drive for 2-4 weeks after each eye? How can I not drive? I have been driving since I was 12. Okay. I waited until I was licensed to drive on the road. I have kept the entire month of May clear of commitments. I may have to forgo daily stitching. Sigh. 

No problem. I will just get a head of the game with my projects. Is that even possible? to get ahead? By this fly by the seat of her pants last minute girl? But then, I do have my 2023 calendar all marked up with exciting adventures for the coming year. I have learned to do this in pencil. 

Blessings,

Chris

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Slow Sunday Stitching

 Progress on a Morrell block. English Paper Piecing. But how do you remove the papers after gluing them?

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Blessings,

Chris

Slow Sunday Stitching

I fussy cut a few more hexies for Lucy. I found a tutorial by Luanne at Loose Threads for making those amazing frames. I met Luanne once at a Shipshewana Quilt Retreat.  

I now have to decide which colours to use for the outer hexies. I initially thought the orange gingham would work, but it so stands out of place with all the others on the wall. I may use the softer gold colour. Either way, I have to prep more so will wait until I have a few more colours on the wall to see if the orange blends in more quietly. 

I ran out of papers so had to start attached the Lucy units together. This is not for the faint of heart. I will try to sew together the next units differently to see if I can manipulate them easier. I thread basted everything up to this point, except the gold squares are glue basted. I find that as I get moving along, some of the papers are popping out before I get them encased.  

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Blessings,

Chris

First To-Do List for 2023

All I can say is, it's a good thing I have a sense of humour and paid the extra for the warranty for my newly replaced keyboard and mouse. How is a girl supposed to play games and scroll and copy and paste without a mouse??? But, good thing I have a touch screen. I am so spoiled. 

I started an elaborate to-do list for the first 6 months of this new year, but I guess I should just do it week by week. The kids do not go back to school until Jan 9 so we still have a whole week of holidays and the grandkids are away doing wintery things elsewhere. The major blizzard that crippled our part of the world over Christmas has melted into mushy puddles and I think I can go out and plant a few more tulip bulbs. Yup. I can do that in January. 

My first to-do list of 2023:

1. Charge the camera batteries so I can take pictures of my quilt progress.
2. Remember to take pictures.
3. Get the mouse and keyboard exchanged at Staples.
4. Set my January OMG goal. It needs to be simple. I have a lot going on this month.
5. Organize my new 2023 Desk Calendar for January so I can see at a glance all that I have going on this month. 
6.  Clear the big work tables in the quilt room to get ready to be busy.
7. Put away all the pretty fabrics I pulled out to fussy cut a few more Lucy blocks. I could show pictures, but my camera battery is being charged. 
8. Stitch for 15 Minutes a Day. This includes hand stitching, machine sewing, cutting, gluing prep work, ironing, unstitching. Yes. I do some of that occasionally. 
9. Meeting with my local quilting friends on messenger this Sat afternoon so need to have the Lucy one inch squares, papers and glue sticks ready for a marathon.
10. Complete the 3 Palm Leaf blocks for the Wedding Quilt. I stopped ignoring it. 
11. Locate the Di Ford-Hall fabrics and see what I have on hand to possibly consider maybe starting Windermere in the next year or two. I ordered EPP papers when I ordered more Lucy papers. Shipping was outrageous.  
12. Play with some of the 23 ufos. This is where my organizing started to take over my fun time, so I think I will report what I played with and progress, if any. with pictures. I don't have to revisit them all this week now do I? The battery should soon be charged. 

I have decided that I need to get some routines established instead of being all over the place. I have lists of what that could look like also. I think my OMG goal for the month should be to complete this week's to-do list. That should keep me out of trouble for a few days. 

blessings,

Chris

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Lucy One Year Later

 I have been reading Nina's posts on composition in art work. Now I get a glimpse of why Lucy Boston's Patchwork Of the Crosses so appeals to this left-brain thinking quilter. Lucy is totally and completely symmetrical, balanced and straight - sort of. The initial elongate hexagon shapes had me challenged as I did not then know how to approach putting them together. But putting them together I have been doing for an entire year. And loving every minute of it!

We were home alone Christmas Day 2021 and Chooky challenged me to gather my papers and the book and start. So I did. Nearly every blog post for 2022 made mention of that journey. I have loved it. The same kind of love I had for working on the Cherries Quilt for 6 years. I will get that one quilted some day. 

I will soon be cutting out the next 12 sets of elongated hexies to continue on into the new year. But I told myself that I had to complete the Wedding Quilt first. That hasn't happened yet but progress has. Until we had a family wedding, surprise 60th birthday party, 18 for an impromptu sleepover during the pre-Christmas blizzard and then Christmas Eve dinner for 22 was here instead of at our daughter's since their town was shutdown because of 3-4 feet of snow during the same blizzard and 100 mile and hour winds, and we had most of the family here anyway in their Christmas jammies. It was awesome. And both my Sweetie and I were sick so it was nice that there were other adult people here to make sure no one starved. Power flickered off a few times, but stayed on, even though the washer and dryer almost never slept but the hot tub did get accidentally put on sleep mode so was about 60F when we dressed up in our swim suits to go in. So Christmas Day was rather quiet since there were only 13 of us. Oh, and I had no Wi-Fi in the upstairs quilt room where we had relocated the desktop computer since my nephew and his family from Saskatchewan were occupying the parlour. Actually, the Wi-Fi was rather sketchy the whole time. Cannot imagine why with all those cell phones being engaged all at the same time. I had also taken all the lego creations in progress up to my sewing tables to protect them for the toddlers who were here all week. 

The goal will be to get those sewn together then make more corner squares after fussy cutting out more 2 inch squares for the centers. 

But wait! I ran out of papers!!! So I start sewing units together so I can remove some papers to re-use. I do like how this is coming together. I did meet my Dec OMG goal and then some. 

So my Jan OMG goal will have to be determined. 

Blessings,

Chris

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Some Hand Stitching

One of my summer quilting goals was to have 12 completed Lucy crosses. And I succeeded.    

Now my Lucy focus will be to stitch together several of the sashing and cornerstone units using the already basted white hexies. I took time to count them out and calculate how many I have and how many I need. Lots. I caved and am now gluing the one-inch squares. They are just too small to hand-baste. I did try.  

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Blessings,

Chris

To-Do Tuesday

 My Sweetie and I celebrated 51 years of marriage with family last week. The girls are at camp. Everyone else has returned to their normal lives while we are here with just the 2 little boys.

This week's list is simple:

1. Babysit little boys while mom and dad are on their 25th-anniversary Alaskan cruise.
2. Pack my bags for a quick trip to England to support my sister who recently lost her husband of more than 50 years.
   
   
   
3. I have my hand stitching prepped and ready to pack. But wait! I gave 3 carry-on bags to my daughter for her cruise so am now borrowing another sister's bag. It is amazing with its versatility and lighter weight. You only need a carry-on for a trip in summer anyway. 

I have so many pieces for Lucy that I finally organized things in two of those large see-through veggie trays. Well, I only had two, I have lots of other parts in 3-4 other see-through project boxes and cookie trays. If I do not see it - it does not exist. 

Blessings,

Chris

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To-Do Tuesday in Mid June

 Last week's list looked like this:

To-Do Tuesday 

1. I packed a box of Lucy stuff so anticipate making some progress on this handwork. I tried to sew baste and join a few 1-inch squares but that is awkward for my arthritic hands so I may end up using glue on those. Sew basting the hexies works just fine. 
   
   
   
2. Download the pictures I took and post them. Downloaded but not posted.
3. Do a post about the wedding. Soon. 

This week's list will be simpler:

Continue the Biblical Blocks Wedding Quilt.

Cut out the fabric for the Churn Dash SAL. 

I decided to go with 2 bins of Moda scraps from a challenge project about 20 years ago. These are soft colours from some old Robyn Pandolph collections.  

Sew for 15 minutes a day. 

I was dawdling and decided to update my ufo list on the sidebar. Why? Who knows. It was not on my to-do list so I did it. I joined the PHD Challenge at the beginning of the year, but have not done much on any of those quilts. I have, however, been working on a different ufo,  Biblical Blocks as a wedding gift for my son and his wife. I wanted to add it to the list, so I just added it and 19 others. Last fall I donated and gave away quite a few unfinished quilt projects. I might do that again but not too fast. I have wanted to work on a few different quilts than the ones on the list. Am I the only one who does this? Linking with Linda texasquiltgal.to-do-tuesday

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Blessings,

Chris

To-Do Tuesday

 

I made amazing progress on last week's goals. 

1. Set up both long tables in the Blue Room. done and bed is out
2. Fill them with all sorts of quilty things so it looks like I am seriously working on several quilts. done
3. Actually work on several quilts. not yet
4. Take pictures of any progress. done but no progress
5. Make progress on something so I can take pictures. soon
6. Chooky has a Churn Dash SAL and I must decide on what fabrics I will be using and make at least 8 blocks. I will soon have 2 long tables to spread things out on. too many options to make a decision quickly but the 2 long tables are ready for me to spill a whole lot of fabrics onto so I can see what I have. 

And we are off to an 8th birthday party then a few days visiting friends in the States. I even got the arriveCAN app loaded on my cell phone so we can get back home. It would not acknowledge my email address so had to use my other one. 

To-Do Tuesday 

1. I packed a box of Lucy stuff so anticipate making some progress on this handwork.
2. Download the pictures I took and post them.
3. Do a post about the wedding. 

 This should keep me busy for this week.

Blessings,

Chris

Sunday Slow Stitching

 

Stitching is very slow these days on Lucy. My hands do not work as good as they used to so manipulating these tiny squares is slow going. But it is going. 

Linking with Kathy at Sunday Slow Stitching. 

Blessings,

Chris

Goals for April 2022

 I often set lofty goals for myself. Not just in the quilt room. In every place in my life. Do I accomplish them? Sometimes. After all, this senior citizen completed a doctorate last year. But in order to do that, I had to lay aside some of the more fun things like quilting. 

My goals for this April include:

1. Complete the Biblical Blocks Ufo. I completed one back in November. I actually spend a whole 4 days finishing it. This time, I have a few more blocks to make and the center medallion is not complete. Ten years ago, I loaned the pattern book to a friend who has moved several times. I have a picture of the completed top and a lot of the hard work is already done. For example, in the class I took when I made my first one 20 years ago, she had us cut ALL the borders and setting triangles first, then we used the rest of the fabric for the blocks. I have most of the borders hand applique done and I have most of the rest of the block foundation patterns drafted up and printed off ready to start the sewing marathon. 
2. Blog my book ABCs of How to Stay Married for 50 Years. I had intended to join up with the A-Z Challenge but just realized that registrations closed last week. Oops. I guess I will just have to blog each of the 26 chapters here. It should be fun. No. It will be fun to read some of the perspectives we old folk have on a long life together. Stay tuned. Not sure just when they will begin or if they will be every day. But, HARK! I have started a brand new blog just for this. 
3. Family coming for Easter dinner at the Farm. There may be up to 25 of us. It will be simple. I like simple. The grand thing will be the outdoor garden wedding here at the Farm later in May. My responsibility is the flowers outside. I planted hundreds of bulbs back in October. But first, we have a gazillion pine cones to rake off the lawn as soon as the rains this week warm up the ground. 
4. Learn to chew again. I finally bit the bullet and got partial dentures. Actually, I bit a piece of hard bacon and a front tooth broke off. Completely. But a year before that, I foolishly tried to open a marker with my teeth. The dentist put in a new tooth, but it only lasted a year, just as we went into a 4-month lockdown. So I finally found a denturist and a new dentist who is next door to him, and last week I got the things. I have been pureeing soups and eating mush as chewing is not happening just yet. No hot drinks or hot food. No eating junk since that has to be chewed. I am down 6 lbs. Wonder why? 
5. Shipshewana Quilt Retreat. It has been 3 years since we last went. I am only taking one project box and it is packed already. It has 4 projects in it. I have taken along Bright Jane and some Morrell blocks to every one of the 5 retreats I went to in the past. Why stop now? I plan to take along the Macaron Mystery to complete also. I had all the cutting done a couple of months ago but did not get the pieces sewn together. And the whole thing packs quite compactly. There are 3 of us going. Want to make sure we have enough room. I will pack Lucy to go with us. I am thinking about taking all the small squares I cut and getting them hand-basted. That should fill in a lot of the time cracks and keep me from doing too much shopping, as well as packing very compactly. 
6. Virtual Writing Retreat. What about doing a retreat at the retreat? The Virtual Writing Retreat I often join is at the end of the month. I plan to take along my laptop and join in online. It should be easy to find a quiet spot and plug in my earbuds. I am writing the curriculum for the Mentoring at the Farm small group I will be leading this summer. It was suggested that I get it done ahead of time and publish a pdf file and print off copies instead of handing out sheets each week. I like the idea. I have it outlined already. It will be exactly 80 pages long since the summer group will run for 80 days. One page a day for homework. I like that. 

So my April OMG goal will be completing the Biblical Blocks top and booking the longarm for early May. The rest is just stuff I will be doing. I suppose I could add spring cleaning but that will be a goal for May. 

Blessings,

Chris

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OMG March 2022 Completion

 My OMG goal for March was to hand-stitch together several 

Lucy Boston Patchwork of the Crosses crosses. 

 I have 4 complete so far. Only 52 more to go. Maybe. 

I went with the third option for the block above because I already had the turquoise cross in the center of the next one.

I have many hexies basted ready for the next bunch of center blocks.

I will be putting the whole thing aside for now, 

because

I have a wedding quilt to complete. 

I pulled out one of my ufos and put it up on the big design wall. 

It is yet another of Rosemary Makhan's Biblical Blocks.

It will be my goal for next month. 

The wedding is here at the Farm in May. 

I have exactly 54 days. No pressure. 

I also will be going to the Shipshewana Retreat at the end of April. 

I have my project box already packed. 

Blessings,

Chris

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Another Bright Jane Block

This Bright Jane block is done by English paper piecing, sort of.

Not too shabby, but 

 I will have to revisit the how-to instructions before doing another.  

There has to be an easier way to get that center done.

I hand pieced this star block for my first Dear Jane quilt
made in Civil War Reproduction fabrics. 

It looks a lot better now than it did 

when I first made it about 8 years ago.  

The boys decided they wanted to put blocks up on the wall this week. 

The bigger one wanted to put the step stool on the table so he could reach higher. 

I said it was not safe to do that. 

The little one repeats everything

so he is learning that some things are not safe. 

Not sure they noticed that half the blocks are on backwards. 

I have been sewing up buffs for our church summer camp. 

Lime green ones and purple ones. 

Now I remember why I stopped trying to sew t-shirts. 

Blessings,

Chris

btw . . . with the root canal all is good and only took the double whammy pain killer once.  

Slow Stitching

Some slow EPP progress on a Dear Jane 2 block.

The boys helped take the Dear Daughter blocks off the wall. 

The little one was trying to put them in a pile

and the bigger one was taking off several and dropping on the pile. 

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Blessings

Chris

Mid June Update

I did get lots of reading done this week. Well, not textbooks. I accidentally bought a kindle book when I was investigating a series of 16 novels that I had read 40 years ago written by Canadian author Mazo de la Roche between 1927 and 1960. The  Whiteoaks of Jalna is a fictitious story spanning 100 years and 4 generations of a family that came to Canada in 1850 and build a magnificent brick mansion on 1000 acres of land near Lake Ontario in the Oakville area. As a result, I got no stitching done but I did get a root canal yesterday. Yes. I invested  yet another $700 to keep one more tooth. And I have to go back to my own dentist to get the filling put in so more $$$. Also, I have had that sinus/throat/cough thing. Not fun when you are in the dentist chair for 2 1/2 hours and your face is frozen. I learned that if you take extra strength Tylenol and Advil at the same time, you get a more effective painkiller. Just saying. 

The RSC  colour for June is Aqua/teal/turquoise 

and I got a few done and started. 

 I bought a new mini iron.

 I plan to do this star by EPP. 

Wish me luck getting those 8 center points together. . 

Blessings,

Chris

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End of May 2018 Progress

A Heart a Day for the Month of May

I have been enjoying  hand appliqueing hearts onto these 4 inch squares.
This challenge came from Deb at Happy to be Scrappy
I missed one day but have caught up. Have no idea where this will lead,
but it has been an interesting lesson in slowing down and doing one small thing consistently.
 I decided that if I do it in the morning it is enjoyable, but, if I leave it until night, it becomes something that HAS to be done and is no longer fun. There are still 6 to stitch.
This is one of my new 6 & 6 for 2018 Challenge.

Bright Jane

This one came out to play this spring and the  superscrappy RSC  colour for May has been pink/rose.
 I am using one of my Featherweights. I have been doing foundation piecing on the blocks this past year because I have all the foundation patterns prepared and printed onto Carol Doak's special paper left over from my first Dear Jane quilt that I completed in 2014 but am still machine quilting.
And
I added sashing strips to the right side and bottoms of most of the finished blocks
in preparation to assemble the top some day.
The blocks are 4 1/2 inches. There will be 169.

I had all 60 completed blocks and the bright border flags up on the design wall and asked the little boys to take them down and put them into project boxes. They could not reach the top row even on the 3-step stool. But I have new converts to play with my blocks.
 Jonathan had walked into the quilt room and exclaimed "WOW!" when he saw them. 

David had not noticed but came and gave me hugs and kisses first.

Dear Daughter

My OMG one-monthly-goal for May was to complete the hand applique on 4 blocks and add the sashing and cornerstones. I was ahead since I made several extra donuts and 3 alternate blocks. Next month there will be a couple of flower blocks. I intend to make the easier ones and skip the more intricate if I can. But then there will be 2 bird blocks in November and I am looking forward to making them. These blocks finish at 8 inches and the sashing is 3 inches.

Huguenot Friendship Quilt

After sewing on the Dear Daughter sashing and cornerstones, I changed the thread to red silk and continued machine appliqueing these blocks with a fine straight stitch using the Bernina.
 It is really boring but this is an impulse project and I work on it between other things.
It will get exciting again when I can put the border together after
all the blocks are complete and the center assembled.
These 36 blocks will be 8 inches set on point with alternate white squares and setting triangles
with an applique border.

Antique Wedding Sampler

For some crazy reason, I pulled out the kits I purchased from Homestead Hearth 2-3 years ago and started working on just one block. Then, since I was prepping corner appliques for one, it was easy to prep them for 2 others, so I did. I had photocopied the patterns onto extra heavy freezer paper and cut out the diamonds and triangles for 3 sunflower blocks when I was in Shipshewana in April.
I stitched these together by hand using an English paper piecing technique.
 Still not decided if I like doing this or not.
These blocks are 12 inches. There will be 25 of them set on point.

Morrell

Yes. I did work on 2 more Morrell blocks. And I completed them.

All 105 pieces of the 3 Flying Geese units.
 I still have several more blocks that I had prepped ready to foundation piece
a couple of years ago. There will be 60 ten inch blocks and
a 20 inch center block.
Someday.

90 Day One Big Thing

I completed one course for my Doctorate in Christian Counseling
and submitted it. 

I continued working on another only to discover that,
where I thought I was close to the end, there were still no less than 12 more books to read
and
an entire 12 week study to work my way through.
 Sigh.
Oh well. It will be a good foundation for my dissertation.
Good thing I bought all the books when I first started it 2 years ago.
This course is about bringing healing to broken women.

And all this because I stopped playing computer games.
 Imagine that. 

Blessings,
Chris

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Hand Work

 My 18 Hearts a Day for the Month of May

Keeping pace pretty good so far 

making one heart a day not making 31 hearts. 

Although, it's killing me to not be making more each day

so

I pulled out some antique Wedding Sampler kits 

 in anticipation of doing some 

English Paper Piecing

I photo copied patterns onto extra heavy freezer paper. 

In my inexperienced creativity,

I turned the freezer paper over

and ironed over the seam allowance

then whipped stitched the seams together. 

It worked fine for the first triangles

but totally fell apart for the second ones. 

Jonathan, who is turning 4 in a couple of weeks,

said he did not like this one 

because it looked scary.

so I changed the center octagon. 

He likes it better now. 

Still lots of applique to do 

but I am going away for the weekend with a bunch of junior highs. 

And 

since it is easy to prep several blocks once I get started,

I prepped 2 more

however

these blocks will all sit on point

so I have to re position this one. 

Good thing I noticed 

since there is another block exactly like this 

without the corner appliques. 

Blessings,

Chris

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