Pattern Piddle

Hello Happy Quilting Friends!  Come on in and let me show you what a week's worth of piddling looks like.  But first, I did do a tiny bit of hand sewing while watching TV, so the week wasn't all about piddling.

And then there was the garden clean up, I wouldn't exactly call that piddling. Sigh.... It was a week of one boring chore after another.

 

I made a brief trip into the sewing room to hang a curtain in the doorway (yellow arrow below).  It's my way of trying to decide if I really want a door.  What you can't see is my living room/dining room is on the other side of the curtain.  I don't like the look of the curtain, maybe I should have bought a curtain with a door printed on it!  HAHA!  I also hung up a small quilt and SEW above my fabric cabinets.....piddling around and avoiding quilting.

Now let's talk about the pattern piddle.  It all started with these cute little dogs on the yo-yo's.   30's reproduction prints are so darn cute. 

And y'all know I love real dogs.  My girl Khaleesi is my best buddy!

It got me to thinking, I need to make a dog quilt with my 30's reproduction fabric stash.  Something cute and easy.  I made a dog quilt for a friend a few years ago, maybe I could use that pattern if I make the dogs smaller.  A quick dig in my files and I still have the pattern!

After a few hours of writing up a pattern and fighting my printer . . . . TADA!  A tiny little applique dog template and a quilt plan!  It's going to be adorable, someday.  

For now it's hanging with the others someday quilt ideas.  This is where the other "must make someday soon" quilt ideas are stored.  In plain site, above my cutting table.  

Let the piddling begin!  I decided it was time to work on the other 30's inspired quilt that I've been wanting to draft in EQ for months.

I found the quilt block in the Encyclopedia book you see below on the right.  I went down so many rabbit holes, wasted hours trying to draft the complicated block in EQ and Inkscape with no luck.  

It was time, I've been putting it off for years, it's time to invest in Block Base +.  It's an add on for EQ, with all the blocks from the book already drawn out and ready to go.  Merry Christmas to me!  A few clicks and it was downloaded.  Then it was time to learn how use it.....more piddling.

Oh my, a few videos and articles later, the day was gone.  I had piddle away an entire Saturday and stayed in my jammies all day.  Sunday was the same, stayed in my jammies, did a few chores and the rest of the day I was piddling in EQ and BB+.  Six new quilts drawn up in EQ.  For now they are staying in EQ.  I've gotta get out of my jammies today and sew!

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