I did not want August to end without a blog post. After all, my blog celebrated its 10th
anniversary this month.
This project has been complete several days, but it took a
while for me to get it back on the design wall and photographed. Those half square triangles were paper pieced
and finish at 1 inch. It’s a portion of
a Sue Garman pattern that I am very happy to say is bound, labeled, done.
Distribution of the next two units of my block of the month,
Kim Diehl’s Esther’s Bloomers, were delayed due to the pandemic. When the opportunity to purchase all remaining
units presented itself, I happily snatched them up. This pandemic certainly does require work-arounds.
Here is unit 2 in the cutting stage. After that, I had to draw diagonal lines
across most of those 1 ½ inch squares.
At least there is no applique this time, but unit 3 has a lot of
handwork.
I also delivered 29 anti-ouch pouches in August and began
handwork on a group project which will take over most of my time due to an October deadline. It has been a couple of years
since I worked on applique this intricate, and I am out of practice.
When I checked the temperature around 6:30 yesterday morning,
it was 81 degrees with a feels-like temperature of 86…a very good day to stay
in and stitch. Whenever I find myself
trying to slip into the pandemic doldrums, I remind myself that I would be
mostly sheltering in place during these hot days, anyway.
