Hexed

Tula Pink's new line Moon Garden was a bit of a challenge for making hexes...the animal images are large and spaced out, but I didn't want to drill a hole in the middle of the yardage. And speaking of animal challenges, I have joined the migration from a bird app to a mastodon app. 

Buddy worries that I will ask him to start thinking blog posts again when what he really wants to do is work on the launch of his Purring Podcast.

Apology Accepted

Some days just disappear. You realize the highlight of the day was Buddy playing with his Flurff...a butterfly attached to a spinning disk. However, maybe some jokes were made at Buddy's expense so he rejects my request for a photo recreating the scene.

But some times, apologies and bribes are made and accepted.

Boxed In

 Today, a box of two-patches became four patches. But it is a small box.

A Molly-sized box.

Going for a Swim

 Time to bring the seahorse project back...happily I already had the pieces...but unhappily I realized half way through that I had changed the pattern and had to refigure that out...and now that I am looking at it online, I realize I left off a corner in the tail,..

I'll let the seahorse with the misshapen tail swim with his friends, until he sinks to the bottom of the design wall.

Move to Hexies

 Buddy requested that I throw away the spools to make more room for his toys. He thought I should work on the hexie quilt because its easily stored in a small bin. These are cuts I made today.

In case it wasn't obvious, I am using animals as the theme. Here are some earlier cuts, plus some of the hexies I have already based on the paper. Revisiting this project, I realize that I have lots of cut hexies and not enough sewn. We are having a windy night, so this will be the perfect project if we lose power.

The Never-ending Spool

I have been culling pairs without enough contrast and plan to recycle them back into the project. However, I already have 900 pairs. I had started to sort them by the color of the darkest spool, but while I was sleeping, Buddy unsorted them. He also dropped his possum toy on top of the pile so I wouldn't know who was to blame. (Sometimes I will find possum at the food dish, sometimes he comes to the bedroom, then back to the sewing room).

Here are the four-patches I have made so far. As a reminder, the key challenge to this quilt is that it is a charm quilt, where each spool is made from a different fabric. Unfortunately, as I was sorting pairs, I found a duplicate fabric!!!! This means my strategy for removing duplicates was not foolproof and my only remedy is to pack this project away and never think of it again.

 

Performance

Today I had my performance review. Molly thinks I don't provide a safe living environment. She noted that in the sewing room alone she risks cuts, punctures and burns, and my preference for quilting must be stoked by a lust for danger. I told her she forgot about the threat of suffocation from an avalanche of fabric. Molly was not amused.

Buddy focused only on my blogging role. He recommended I provide less words and pictures but more thinking.

Today, I only unsewed some spools so I will have to supplement this post with more quilts from the Clark County Quilters show...moving now to improv.

Here is the description.

This was an interesting spin on a familiar format.

And the description.

This quilt received three ribbons, and it stood out for its original design. Unfortunately, I didn't get a photo of the description. The quilt guild did take photos of the entire show and have made the images available on a flash drive. So hopefully it will include this quilts' description. I also didn't take a picture of the overall winner...it was a "realistic" fused scene with a dragon.