Or Why I haven't started quilting yet today....
I posted this morning and Mary said this at the end of her comment:
"Surely you are getting near the end of your stash of block-a-day blocks?"
I think she's asked me this before and others too and I always think that I need to get the box
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| box where the Bl-a-days live |
out and take a picture, count and gag in horror refresh my memory at how many I DO have left.
So I replied that I would get my camera and go see and if I didn't get distracted I'd try to write a little post about it.
After taking all these pictures
(notice the little note beside the pile of CW 12" blocks) I counted them all and the total is 77.
Well instead of putting them away I started to think to myself "OH my gawd, I am never going to make a quilt with this, this this (pulling blocks out and tossing them). For a moment I almost just put them all away but then I started to sew. No use having blocks that are weird in size or looks take up space in my room or my head.
I found a drawer with leftover backing and orphans from previous quilts.
As I was sewing these together I also sewed the little block-a-day quilt together that I posted about this morning. I moved it and the little Christmas 9-patch to the 2nd design wall.
Because now the big wall has this on it.
And this is why the post title is seventy-three--in all this sewing I used 4 blocks... I know there are more than 4 blocks on the wall but some of them were already in the reject drawer to they didn't get counted in the green box.
**don't be alarmed...I know what I'm doing**
hahaha
So now it's past lunch time, I'm hungry, no quilting yet but I feel good because I wanted to get my Strings & Stars quilt done this month.
I didn't have backing for it.
I do now.
Oh and I forgot to put it in the last post, because I was just kidding up there, I really don't KNOW WHAT I"M DOING MOST OF THE TIME!!!!
I finally got a box that would hold the 6 Quilts for Kids quilts that I made and they are on their way.
I'm pretty sure I've made 11 this year. The goal was 12 (one a month) not sure if I will get that twelfth one done, we'll see.
OK time for lunch!
