In mid-March, I decided to join in the Scrappy Meets Thrift
Challenge sponsored by Taryn at Repro Quilt Lover. For a number of reasons including
participation in the Guild Quilt Show, a week-long trip to South Texas and
other life events, I got a very late start.
Fortunately, Taryn has structured the sew-along in a very relaxed fashion
and I have finally begun work in earnest.
I get a lot of good-natured teasing from my friends about
how I love projects with very small pieces.
So, it should be no surprise that I’ve chosen to do the paper pieced
version with 2-inch finished blocks. The
inspiration quilt had 900 pieced blocks.
I have enough reproduction fabric to make that size, but I’ll
probably stop far short of that.
Here are the blocks I have pieced already.
Here is a close-up of one block.
Since I will be going on a quilt retreat later this week, I
have been very busy cutting components for blocks. It’s been a couple of years since I have been
able to go to a retreat, and I am really looking forward to it. We are expecting a small group of about seven
quilters.
The gathering with the neighborhood quilters that was supposed
to happen last Monday, was canceled at the last minute. The hostess had to take a good friend to ER
for heart issues. That’s a good reason!
In other news, we have a new critter residing in our fenced back yard where our dogs have the freedom to run. I’ve attempted to insert a video from our game cam to show why I…am…so...not…happy!
