Working on "Carolina Chain" blocks this afternoon, a block from Bonnie Hunter's "Addicted to Scraps" column in Quiltmaker magazine.
A big pile of these five inch unfinished blocks have been completed. I need to finish the rest!
When they are done, the next step is to deal with this stack.
Blocks for two different quilt tops are inter-mixed in this stack.
These large blocks and
These twelve inch blocks are in the stack.
It is my way of keeping myself on track and focused.
I think I have talked about this tendency of mine before where I will go off track when I get one or two blocks of a quilt completed and I therefore know how to sew the blocks together and it then becomes routine and monotonous. I get bored with doing the same block over and over. So I now inter-mix blocks from two or more quilts together into a stack and work on them little by little.
Blocks construction may proceed a bit slower now, but I do see blocks for a top to completion these days. In the past, I would usually set them aside and the project would then be quickly destined for the UFO stash.
Well back to sewing...
Louise, on the windy island, on a Monday afternoon, sewing in the hallway studio, in the sunshine