Gail from Missouri Came to Visit

She drove for 3 days to get here to our space in Canada. They asked her interesting questions at the border. Where are you going? How long have you known her? How did you meet? You met on Zoom? They let her and her companion bear Lucy in. We had a great time. Gail, Janice and my sister Elizabeth and I shared a room at the Shipshewana Quilt Retreat for a week 2 years ago. They came out to the farm to join us for a day of quilting and visiting. 

I put all the Stonefields blocks and bits on the big design wall to see what it will look like. I am considering putting a center medallion. I started that at a Di Ford Hall workshop in Shipshewana in 2017 using fabrics from the Stonefields project bin. I had been considering this quilt for more than 10 years. Not sure if that parrot will make it into the center. But who knows. 

I still have to decide if there will be 3 rows of hexie flowers around the outside or 2. I put up all I had made - 60. They are pinned on because the papers are still in and they do not stick to the fuzzy board.

I pulled out the circle making things. Gail suggested using the Faultless heavy starch. It does work better than what I had been using. The white background fabric I am using for some of the squares is much heavier than most of the other fabric and would not behave in the Applipop metal rings. Especially the tiny circles. So, I tried putting the Perfect Circles into the larger metal circle and voila! it works very nicely. 

In the meantime my Lucy came out to play.
Progress on Lucy after ignoring her for more than a year. I made the decision to machine zig-zag the blocks together then machine stitch the hexies and squares. Some of these blocks are sewn together in rows and the rows are random on the wall. Now to fussy cut more pieces. My thoughts had been to make 25 blocks. Almost there. I may make it up to 30 or 35. I cut a lot more white hexies. I ran out of the 1 inch square papers but will remove those already sewn together to reuse. They come out easily enough with a finger nail.

I want to make a few more exciting crosses with stripes and frames. I recalled joining the Lucy Boston facebook group several years ago. Got lots of inspiration. So I pulled out a few fancy fabrics and the see-through templates I made from Luann at Loose Threads. 

Blessings,

Chris

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