One day into the week and so far I've mostly stuck to the goals I set for myself for this week. A productive morning was spent in my sewing room. My happy place.
The binding is on my Challenge project for the guild quilt show. I can check it off as a finish, but can't show it here until after the quilt show.
The Christmas stocking is one step closer to finished. Binding and the hanging loop are attached, but it all requires some hand stitching before I can say it's finished.
The Log Cabin blocks are progressing. One final green strip needs to be sewn onto the blocks, then pressing and squaring up.
I will admit to being sidetracked for a little while - cleaning up the mess I made of my drawers holding batiks. There are 4 drawers in this unit, and 2 of them were actually pulled completely out and stacked on top of a box while I was searching for a couple more greens and more orange for the cactus blocks for the next step in this quilt. I'm happy to say the mess is cleaned up and the drawers are back in and actually close.
So - the orange will be the cactus "bloom" in each of the next 20 blocks. I was also sidetracked briefly because that specialty ruler I ordered was delivered and I just HAD to try it out. I'm not usually a fan of rulers that do only 1 thing, but I'm thinking this might have been a good purchase for making that kite shape.
The pattern has us cut a square, then fold it in half diagonally and press. That fold lays along that line on the ruler, then we cut. Open it up and press - and voila!! The kite shape is perfect. The other side of the ruler is marked for cutting the pieces that will attach to the sides of the kite. And the ruler is even marked to square up that block. Not bad!
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