Wednesday the 18th
A day to enjoy some outside time and some indoors time. It’s called a balanced day.
My mornings involve taking a walk around the patio area to see what is working its way out of the dirt. I am giving everything plenty of time to show itself before I choose the hoe. There is a ton of wild mustard showing itself. I have my eye on several Autumn Joy that I may divide if the bare spots persist.
Today in the studio I completed the nine 5.5 inch blocks named The Courthouse Steps. A grouping of three sewn in a strip will find themselves in the completed project in various areas. It wasn’t a difficult block using one inch strips. The most time consuming was pressing after each seam was stitched prior to trimming. That brought a chuckle from me. When my sister got the quilting bug she realized then what had escaped her in garment sewing . . . ya gotta stitch a seam and then press a seam.
After today’s stitching, I turned the page to see what would come next in this project. It will be four 6.5 inch blocks labeled as Log Cabin. Again it will be fabric cut into one inch strips. My pile of scraps gets fluffed up and then time will tell. I had a great phone visit this morning from one of the stitchers. Sharon is aware of this pattern as we all had a chance of seeing the finished project when fellow Stitcher Lu brought it to one of our luncheons at Baker’s Square. Yup . . . I could allow Sharon to know it is one step at a time and to not loose patience. It was great that Sharon called as I will be with Dennis tomorrow during his surgery rather than at Baker’s square with the group of stitchers. I will catch up with them next month.
Dennis had his eye injection today at our local eye clinic. Wham, bam . . . two procedures in as many days for Dennis. Both Dennis and I are anxious to make the call after supper as to when we need to be at the hospital tomorrow. Tomorrow at this time, Dennis will be recovering either at the hospital or at home. Whew.