Do you ever wonder how and why packages get delayed? Last week on Monday I mailed 2 identical boxes holding quilts. Both were estimated to arrive at their destinations on Thursday, the same week. I've been tracking both online. One was headed to Atlanta with a baby quilt. It arrived right on time. The other was headed to Texas with a graduation quilt - from South Dakota, via Fargo, North Dakota on Tuesday - and then who knows where for the next 6 days. The tracking kept showing "In Transit to Next Facility" for 6 days but never showed WHERE. Was it sitting in a mail truck somewhere stuck in a snowbank? It was finally delivered on Tuesday afternoon. I think . . .
There were 5 of those 6" blocks remaining, and those went into a doll quilt in a 9-patch layout with some yellow ombre that was in the stash. Those outer borders are leftover binding pieces. There was a batting chunk the right size, and I'll be looking at the leftover backing pieces for something that works for the back.
I've been working on the #3 UFO quilt top this week too. It involves a Kaffe jelly roll that I was planning to use in a Jelly Roll Race quilt a couple of years ago. When I abandoned it, the whole jelly roll was sewn end to end into the first step - one long, long, long strip. That was the hard work in this project. Good news - it's now 8 strips wide. And I'm not hating it.
No sewing at all is likely today as I'm joining in on the monthly coffee/lunch group of retired staff from the school district I spent 2 decades in. And in the afternoon I'm meeting a couple of friends for cards and catching up.
5 comments:
This is why I only ship using UPS. Several weeks ago, I shipped 2 boxes to my grandkids. Both boxes were going to the same address. One arrived 3 days late and the other was 2 weeks late. UPS packages arrive on time every time and it's cheaper.
You made good use of those churn dash blocks. That doll quilt is really bold and beautiful. Enjoy your time with friends today. It's good to get out of the sewing room for a bit and actually talk to people rather than mumble to oneself about seams not matching (surely it's not just me that does that?)
I finally gave up on usps and only use ups - I had a package returned after a month of traveling the us - not even close to where it was supposed to go... sad.....
but!! I LOVE your Churns!!! so perfect!
I love to hate the post office - we can't do without it but I hate it for mailing packages. The tracking is usually useless. I too well start tracking an item and then it sits and sits and you wonder why it is staying in the same place for a week. And the destinations do not always make sense sometimes a package from the east will sit in Memphis forever then totally skip Little Rock but go to Houston or Dallas instead of Arkansas where it should go but after it sits for a week in Texas it turns around and comes back to Arkansas.
yeah usps is wacky these days...i sent my sister in maine a package and it went to miami beach first...go figure...ooh love the kaffes!
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