Hello, quilty friends! It’s been weeks since my last post. Life in Podunk is just fine, I’ve simply been suffering from a severe case of “can’t-be-bothered-to-type-itis.” Thank you to everyone who checked in to make sure I hadn’t been buried under a huge pile of fabric. Honestly, I didn’t realize my last post was over a month ago! From now on, during my bouts of type-itis, I’ll drop by at least once a week. Expect a few photos and minimal chatter, just enough to confirm the UFOs haven’t abducted me… yet. HAHA!
A lot has happened over the past month, but for today’s blog post, I’m focusing on the most recent happenings. I’ve been making steady progress on the mini Cake Stand quilt blocks, and this stack of design boards with blocks ready to be sewn has been sitting here for about two weeks. The pile has shrunk a bit, but not by much.
The quilt needs a little over 150 cake stand blocks and slightly fewer for the alternating blocks. It will finish at over 90 inches, though I can’t recall the exact measurement off the top of my head—it’s written down somewhere in the sewing room. Anyway...here's what I've finished so far.
Tiny blocks always bring a grin to my face. Working with scraps can be quite the workout but it brings me so much joy to remember the quilts that made these scraps. It's hard to believe that after quilting since 1987—38 years!—every single quilt still makes my little old heart do a happy dance.
If your remodeling/refurbishing completed? That's a lot of work. Thanks for checking in with us, those baskets are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteYou have made a lot of progress with the baskets! Lots of very fun scraps in those blocks. It's a good thing one's UFOs can really abduct you, I have enough that I'd be gone for a long, long time.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you are okay and the scraps didn't eat you up!
ReplyDeleteWow is that extraordinarily beautiful!! I haven’t boughten low volume prints (only white on white) in my sewing life, but I started collecting them over the past six months for this reason exactly! Thanks for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteGood to hear from you, Lea Anne! I thought you were probably overwhelmed with all the work going on in your house! Such a lot happening. Love the little cake stand blocks.xx
ReplyDeleteIt cheers me up to hear that each quilt make your heart dance. That's why we keep doing it. I was thinking last night that I don't make quilts because I want quilts, I make quilts because I get so much joy out of the actual making, the creating. You cake stand progress looks delightful.
ReplyDeleteGoodness, I love your cake stand blocks🥰They made me smile too!
ReplyDeleteNice to hear from you again, Lea Anne! I love your little cake stand blocks!
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