Another Floral Finish

Yippee, skippy!

72" x 91" (I've since cleaned off the smudge that makes that vertical strip look faded and blurry.)

Diversion

With some personal tumult going on at the moment, it's been hard to get terribly enthused about going into my studio these past few days, other than for the occasional Dump-'n'-Dash. But yesterday I had a yearning to accomplish something by way of quilting (and I needed some quiet thinking time), so I sat down with my rail blocks (which earlier I had already paired up and sewn together) and promptly made a mistake that required unsewing half the misbegotten seam.

I looked around at my options. Did I want to get up and go all the way around the table to boot up the computer and look at the layout I had planned for the rail blocks?

Some Semblance of Self

I'm going to take a page out of Lane's book blog and insert anything political, that I feel I must get off my chest, at the bottom of my entry under a line of asterisks. I am also giving a hugely grateful "Thank you!" to Nann and Caroline for their comments of support and virtual hugs. Those, along with reading some of my favorite bloggers (The Bloggess in particular) and having Real Time conversations with friends (of both persuasions), have helped me work out and through my feelings and get back to a semblance of my normal, bubbly-but-sarcastic self. I'm singing again, ready to perform for The Great Unwashed in our upcoming Holiday gigs.

On a completely surprising note, in the midst of my utter depression I had a dream about making a colorful quilt from a panel of this fabric I have on hand. There was hope yet, and I clung to it!!

Earning my keep

The Rail Fence quilt is finished, but before putting anything on the donation stack I like to take photos of the front, back, and label--the usual suspects. This one is a biggun', though, so I gave up trying to find a suitable surface at home and took it with me to this weekend's Chorus Management Team meeting (I was the scribe). I knew I'd find a couple of willing volunteers to hold it up while I snapped some photos.

Roughly 78" x 90"

More info about the fabrics in this post

What I had not anticipated was that one of the members would fall so completely in love with it that she'd buy it right then and there! (It was that Jinny Beyer Rose Garden fabric that caught and held her eye--the fabric I hadn't known what to do with for all these years.)

Off the Rails

One might think that this is a simple pattern--two rectangles sewn together, every other block turned 90 degrees. What's to mess up?

I have this 'gift': if there's only two ways to interpret something, I will invariably and immediately find a third. Along those same lines, I can find a whole 'nother way to construct, incorrectly, a simple pattern.

Basting tools

As promised, I started first thing this morning on pin-basting this, finishing at 5 this afternoon.

I really didn't think it would take all day, but it did! I finally had sense enough to put a thimble on my pushing (middle) finger, but it and my thumb are really worn out now.