Wednesday, April 23, 2025

WIA Wednesday: the one with missing pieces

I have continued making the blocks for the 2nd Teal Stars quilt, it's about half done. It's mostly just having the cutting board clear and laying it out, cutting the block, arranging it, and sewing it together. Four blocks down, five blocks to go.

I can do it by next week if I do one a day.

One a day. It's not difficult. Just one.

I finished another row of stars for the Restless Hands quilt:

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If I was going to do this quilt again (ahahahahahaha no) then I'd do lots of neutrals for the background and most of the stars, and then some swathes of stars with a little bit of colour before sweeping in to more vivid hues, so there are all the stars in the sky...but not all of them are visible at once.

I think two of the stars are switched around. One has a piece where there doesn't need to be a piece, and the other has a gap - a piece is missing. So do I swap the piece around, or do I move the stars entirely?

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Otherwise, it's a really busy week for me on several fronts so not much is going to happen.

Thursday, April 10, 2025

WIA Wednesday - 'Where I'm At' Wednesday

WIA Wednesday: a general update, because so often I haven't done anything much at all, so the WIPs just sit there unmoved.  

This week, I made a cushion envelope for a cushion whose envelope had disintegrated, and I sewed a quilt block for the Teal/Blue Stars, and finished a couple of stars for the Restless Hands of Sel.

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It's not much, but it's some progress. Progress on my creative stuff is difficult when I'm prepping for the winter garden, when the world is on fire, and when I'm trying to help out with a local electoral candidate. All worthy causes, but hoo boy, I kind of miss the days when I didn't have to think about anything else.