If I’m counting correctly, we are now in our 10th
week of Covid-19 quarantine. My, how life
has changed! It seems like Texas is on
the national news every day as the governor moves us through the reopening phases. We live in an area with lots of retirees and
our particular community continues to be more cautious than others; for which I’m
grateful.
Since my last post, I have completed 37 anti-ouch pouches
with 9 more cut and ready for stitching.
I’ve done enough of these over the past several years that they qualify
as mindless sewing, and I’m grateful to have them to turn to when I need
hypnotic stitching. These cushions
benefit breast cancer patients.
A house quilt has been on my want-to-do list for a
while. When I saw this free pattern for
a 9-inch pot holder at Laugh Yourself Into Stitches I decided to give it a try. It’s a fun little project, and I intend to
make several for my gift basket. Now that my test block is done, I want to be a bit more adventurous in my fabric selection.
This is my pandemic quilt project. I had pulled the pattern from the American
Patchwork and Quilting April 2019 magazine.
Debbie at Stitchin' Therapy also posted about this block.
I decided to do my blocks in blues, greens
and neutrals, a combination I find very soothing. It sure involves a lot of scrap cutting, but
my collection of blocks is gradually growing while my scrap stash refuses to
shrink.
One way I’m coping with missing my friends is by
participating in various e-mail chains.
I was quite surprised when my participation “earned” me this pin made by
one of our members. It will be added to
my guild name tag and worn with pride when we finally meet again.
The wildflowers have mostly gone to seed now, but here is
another shot from a neighbor’s wildflower bed that I took a couple of weeks
ago.
The cacti care still in bloom.
