I know I've been MIA for a couple months, my last blog post was the end of January, and now it's April. In case you've been wondering, DH and I are fine, but there's a lot going on with other members of the family, so I really haven't been sewing at all. We ended up taking a lengthy, unplanned trip to see my parents, but a little bit of quilty stuff snuck in.
I saw the world's largest quilting needle in Paducah, Kentucky. I went to Hanock's of Paducah also. I actually didn't buy anything there, which even surprised me! I've ordered from them lots of times. DH offered to take me to the National Quilting Museum, but I just wasn't into spending the time or the money that day to do it.
Not that I didn't spend any money on quilting on the trip.
We went to Marshall Dry Goods in Batesville, Arkansas, and I bought a couple bundles of fabric at wholesale prices. I actually was waited on by Marshall himself, and he showed me the new battings they've just developed. I've been buying from Marshall Dry Goods for years, and this was the second time I've gotten to go in person. If we are anywhere near there, we detour so I can save the shipping fees.
DH took me to Paris two days in a row.
Paris, Arkansas
And Paris, Texas. Technically I have been to Paris, France, but only the airport, and it was so foggy we couldn't see any of the city.
We saw a couple of our kids and several grandkids on the trip. We managed to miss the worst of the weather issues, but unfortunately DS the Elder and family didn't. Shortly after we left seeing him, they were hit by a tornado. They are fine, but their apartment building is not, so now they are picking up the pieces of their lives and in temporary housing. We saw a LOT of tornado damage on the trip, and it's looking like a bad year for weather.
This tornado went over DD#1's house the same day, but thankfully, it didn't touch down. It was weird to have two of my kids in tornado's paths within an hour of each other, and they don't even live in the same state.
We've actually been home for a bit, but I still wasn't sewing, so I didn't have much to blog about. I'm throwing a baby shower on Saturday, so I've been working on stuff for that. I did make a stack of burp rags for the baby, but funnily enough, I did not need to make a quilt. I had made a quilt from leftovers of their wedding quilt, and kept it in case they ever had a girl. Guess, what? The baby is a girl, so quilt was already done. One of my nieces is also pregnant, and I'm using a quilt I had already made for her baby too.
DH wants another scooter quilt to raffle off, so I got to work and just sewed the borders on a few minutes ago. I started out with a panel and no plan. I've been wanting to try the Attic Windows illusion with a panel, so I started with that.
This is wider than tall, so I needed to add something to the top and bottom.
I auditioned several options on EQ, and decided on this. It was a lot of HST's to cut, so I decided to die cut them.
Is there waste with die cutting? Well, here's the waste from almost 400 HST's next to my 60mm rotary cutter. Perfectly cut HST's with no dog ears to trim? I'll take the waste. Sometimes I use my EZ Angle ruler to cut HST's, and I like doing that just fine, but this was faster, and in this case, speed matters.
Here's the quilt top, made in under a week. The baby shower is Saturday, and all my free time between now and them will be either house cleaning or other shower preparations. I'm hoping to baste this quilt on Sunday, and if I can, I should be able to finish it by next weekend.
This year is shaping up to be a lot different than we had planned. I knew it wasn't going to be great year for quilting, but now it's looking like it will be a worse year for quilting than I knew. That's OK, life happens and sometimes things get put on the back burner. When I have something to show, I'll blog, if I haven't done any sewing, I won't. This year the blog will be sporadic, so please hang in there, I haven't lost my love of blogging, just lost the time to sew.
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