Sunday, November 17, 2024

I Made a Block!

And started yet another quilt!

I'm trying so hard to wrap up some WIPs, but my foot pedal situation (see earlier post) is slowing me down.  Time to make a call for a replacement.

Friday I did manage to finish a fourth Shadow of the Bear (SotB) block for the center of my abbreviated version.  The foot pedal operates so sporadically, sometimes fast, sometimes stitch-by-stitch.  Add to that it's a complicated block, I'm just glad I got it done.  (sorry, the angle of the photo distorts it a bit ... it's really square)


Now all I have to do is make the corner blocks -- I already have a plan -- and then add borders.  I still need to make one more shadow block for the second quilt I am working on.

Serendipity:  A Smores friend brought me Trudie Hughes' book that has the original SotB quilt and I discovered there is also a pattern for a small quilt which is exactly what I have planned!

Yesterday our new Creative Hands group at church had their second monthly gathering and I spent my time turning the binding on a smallish wall hanging.  It's a moldy-oldy and I will be so thrilled to have it finished.  I'll take a picture when it's done.

I received a Connecting Threads order of precut strips in solid colors this week so today I sewed 2-1/2" squares to some strips and made 9-patches. I don't know yet how I will set them.  It will be a small quilt.

The Encore Azaleas are going crazy in the garden below my window.


And my Thanksgiving/Christmas cactus is starting to bloom.




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