I continued assembling the Idaho Square Dance, but abruptly ran out of log cabin blocks. I had carefully calculated how many I needed given I am expanding the quilt by two rows to make a 60 by 80 inch quilt. According to new calculations, I needed fifteen more log cabin blocks. Fifteen?
After careful scrutiny of the sewing room, I found ten blocks that the cats had hidden in the chicken coop at the base of the design wall. This meant I only needed to make five more.
As you can see, at the end of assembling all of the diagonals, I have six log cabin blocks remaining.
And here are the diagonals pinned to the design wall. As I was pinning the quilt at the top of the design wall, Buddy poked his head over the top. He batted at the quilt blocks. He's quite adorable when he pretends to be a cat.
Meanwhile, the rectangular postage stamp blocks doubled.
The Bonnie Hunter quilt is coming along fantastically well. I can see it is going to have a red "inner border" effect and will look spectacular. Buddy has shown good taste by favouring this quilt. Loving the elongated postage stamps too. You must have an incredible scrap box!
ReplyDeleteYou must be a math genius to have those blocks work out perfectly. Can't wait to see the finish. Is Molly still training Buddy as a quilt critic?
ReplyDeleteBoth pieces are lovely and coming together so well--beautiful rich colors in Square Dance; I like your rectangular postage stamps a lot, too--almost like a "coin" type quilt variation...hugs, Julierose
ReplyDeleteQuilt blocks in the chicken coop and cats on the wall. Sounds like a Dr. Seuss book. How can anyone do any math in that environment and get the correct answer?
ReplyDeleteAnd are you going to make an entire quilt out of blue enlongated stamps/whatchamacallits?
The Square Dance is looking super, fantastic movement in that setting.
ReplyDeletewhat a wonderful collection of blue fabrics!
ReplyDeleteWhat else have the cats hidden in the chicken coop? (Be careful. I haven't seen any of those owls in a while...)
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