Remember the baggies full of HST's created over my quilting lifetime? It's time to add a few more to the baggies from my current Twinkler quilt. Tackling them in small batches as they are produced is easier than doing them all at once after the quilt is finished.
The quilt will produce 336 bonus HST's! I used my handy dandy homemade locking HST ruler. It makes the process so much quicker. If you would like to make one of your own, I made a YT video a few years ago.
The HST's from this project are trimming to 1.75 and 1.5. Obviously my second stitch line wasn't consistent. That's okay, the first stich line was important. These little guys are bonus blocks to hopefully be used someday. Now that I think about it I should put a note in these boxes of thousands of HST's. Should I die before using them I need to let my family know these should be given or sold to a quilter. All the work is done! Someone could sew them into a quilt.
Trimming this smaller batch was quick and painless. Before I knew it they were finished and in their new home.
Before moving onto my next quilting project I needed to do some outside work. We have to small veggie garden beds for things like garlic and onions. As you can see we actually have a weed bed. A critter of some sort destroyed the garlic and onions early in the year. Why weed it if there's no produce growing?
The weeds were easy to pull. It only took about 30 minutes. I left this one small tree.
I'll need to dig it out with a shovel in this morning when it's not so doggone hot. Pulling on this one is not an option. Take a look at the thorns. You should see the size of them on a full grown tree! Horrible trees in so many ways. Invasive, thorny and hard as rock.
It was time to get back to my happy place. Our porch project is almost complete. Mr. Podunk still has some work to do under the stairs and we still need to paint the railings. The wood railings need to cure a bit before painting. They were oozing liquid when screwed into place. If we paint them now the paint will peel off. So it could be this fall or next year before they get painted.
After getting back in the studio I decided to work on the Bow Tie quilt.
The blue fabrics were pulled a couple of weeks ago and have been waiting to be cut.
The rest of the day was spent ironing and cutting about half of the blue Bow Tie blocks.
Of course there was laundry, cooking and cleaning to be done also. I may finish these up today and I may not. First thing on the list today is digging up the tree.
Khaleesi update. She's a constant work in progress. We're always trying to teach her something new. She's not a fan of standing in water. I bath her in my small shower. It's messy and not fun. I've been teaching her to like water in a wading pool. The training has been going well. Today it was time to clean the wading pool but someone decided to take a dip! Click on the video to play. It won't take you another site, it will play here on the blog.
I used to watch a TV show, America's Top Dog maybe? One obstacle course had water at the end, and the dogs that had the most problems were the police dogs. They'd charge right up with their police officer partner and come to a screeching halt. The officer had to convince the dog to get in the water, sometimes to the point of having to pick the dog up and put it in. I think a couple of dogs had to be carried through the water. Most of those dogs were German or Belgian Shepherds, or Malinois (sp?). So Khaleesi has some good company about not wanting to go into water.
ReplyDeleteNice work on all those HSTs being organized. I should do my small collection before it becomes a huge task.
Good job keeping up on those HST's. Making a quilt from some of those blocks would be a good winter quilt. Locust trees are just nasty. Those thorns will puncture tires, guess how I know! Happy stitching!
ReplyDeleteAaah such cute teeny HST. Great job on keeping them wrangled up. Is that a locust tree? We used to have some large ones and the thorns were nasty. Happy quilting. Hgus.
ReplyDeleteI have those fabrics in your last photo :) Your porch looks great. I like your idea of categorizing the HSTs into baggies. Mine are just thrown in a plastic shoe box, and they need to be squared up. I've been watching your videos and watched the one with the homemade HST square up ruler. I"m going to do that. It's a shame you don't make videos anymore. I'm enjoying the ones you have on YT.
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