posted by Lily on quilts

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I’m up to 10 out of 42! Yay!  And I’m still excited about finishing it!  Yay!

It’s been a lovely day of block sewing and Little A glory.  She received an A+ for her presentation of the Greek myth surrounding Arachne and Athena’s weaving competition and received the highest possible score on her reading lexile.  Yay!  Now she is serenading us with Beethoven …

the girlies are enjoying the concert …

and I have taken over the dining room table yet again.  It’s dinner on our laps folks!

I simply had to go back to the patchwork shop and get a few more fat quarters today, the white background fabric, and the blue sashing fabric.  Yum!

So here are the blocks I’ve finished today – excuse the exceptionally crappy photographs – there’s no decent light. (When I complete the rows, I promise I will remember to take the photos during daylight hours. )

four snowballs – the original had curved pieces in the corner – I changed it, I mean teensy-weeny curved pieces, really!  Dear Jane this is not.   I rather like the tiny hourglass in the middle!

square within a square – the fabric of the pale pink outer triangles is absolutely divine – it is so soft and fine – would have made Blanche the perfect handkerchief.  And I LOVE the pale pink with the almost black.

pointed cross – making this block was utter pleasure, I could have made heaps!  The cross is actually blue and take my word for it, it is the prettiest colour combination.

flying geese – and this block left me most satisfied – I ADORE piecing flying geese and the pink – it’s perfect.  Actually, I received my Lucinda’s needle fabric from z and s last week and am going to sew it up into hundreds of flying geese – you’ll just have to wait and see.

rhombus star … now Little A said this block was just a collection of rhombus (or should that be rhombi?) and was therefore dead easy.  I don’t think so, and whilst I know that’s how it should be pieced, I am not that adventurous and am perfectly pleased with what we have here!

an “n” – why an “n”?  I don’t know!?!?!  Maybe the creator of the original quilt was Nora, or Nanette, or Nicole, or Natalie – or maybe because the letter “n” is jolly easy to piece, or was the first initial of the boy down the road – Ned – for whom the creator had a secret crush?  Who knows – N for no idea.  But sweet!

exploding evening star … this block has 57 pieces – hmmm, do we like 57 pieces?  Nooooo … it’s at least 40 too many!    But all in all, it turned out quite fine despite there being 57 PIECES!

and these are the lost and confused geese – they were following our earlier perfectionists but were deterred by random fireworks over Southbank and are now helter skelter across the sky.  Poor things.  And they are in fact orange – a lovely Fig Tree orange.

Mmmmm… tomorrow I shall finish off the blocks that belong to rows with these ones so that I may sew up some finished rows.  What ho Shelia!  This is good fun – and great practice for improving my technique – watch where that foot is going Lily, not where it’s been!

p.s. if you know the proper names for any of these blocks, do please let me know! :-)