A Snow Day
It may have been a snow day outside, but the sewing studio was humming right along. It is always gratifying when a project that really didn’t have an end game planned does comes together.
I enjoy making scrappy quilts. Let’s get to the bottom of that scrap box and throw something together. What seemed to come together was a lot of warm colored scraps. I picked up a pattern off of Facebook and went with the eight point pinwheels. It took 49 nine inch finished blocks. I had begun this in August of 2019. Of course . . . it’s warm outside and warm colors are being put together.
I knew I would like to have a double sized quilt in the end. I had also thought I would have liked a flannel back to this quilt. 88″ x 88″ is very close to what the books say is a double sized bed quilt. The flannel was not to be had in the 108″ choice as I shopped at Old Alley Quilt on their last days of business when everything was 30% off and choices were slim.
I have titled my quilt top Tropical Ocean Waves. When it came to putting sashings and corner stones to it, I was less than thrilled with what I had on hand to go with the warm colors. I was determined I would not purchase fabric for the quilt top, it had to come out of my stashes. I went to the exact opposite and chose dark teal and light teal colors from my stashes . . . thus the Tropical Ocean Waves title. The lighter of the teals being not a solid color . . . who knew! It was as if it was planned all along for ocean waves. Dennis’ opinion was asked for and he was a great help. By adding the 1/4 inch blue strip around all of the the blocks it tied in well with the plan. I didn’t think I would ever get done cutting 1″ wide strips. It took 49 of them with several inches left on each for the circular file.
As of this afternoon the sewing studio is tidy. Everything is put back in its place and the quilt top, batting and backing are stacked ready for a winter weather break to take to Sharon in Sherburn.
Dennis has been playing in the snow this afternoon with his snowblower. I kept track of him as he blew a path on the east side of the garage to blow out the area where the pan is set out for the deer food. The temps have warmed up allowing the snow and the winds are promised to be wild this weekend.
Staying safe this weekend is the tip of the day.