I finally finished this
tote last night. It's for me! I repeat, it is for me! The last 3 I made ended up not for me. I'm going to use it to lug my stuff to quilt classes.
My friend Libby and I went shopping yesterday to
The Quilt Co., then lunch and finally Jo Ann Fabrics. It was a good day. We were
suppose to get together and have a sew/gabfest at my house, but she needed wide backing and a few things and we decided it was too cold and snowy to drag all her stuff to my house, so we shopped instead.
A few months ago I bought the One Block Wonder Book, but I was scared to make it all by myself. The Quilt Co. has offered a class on it a few times last year and lo and behold they're doing it again. So we talked to Marsha, who will be teaching the class and we both signed up. The class is 2 part and doesn't start until March, so I have time to get some other things done; like my 2 t-shirt quilts. Actually, I bought a jelly roll of the Aviary line from 3 Sisters, I cut it up last night to make a baby quilt gift, no pictures yet, but I'm using the directions from
Mary. I think it's going to be a lovely quilt for a baby girl.
Oh and my calendar finally came so I started my Block-a-Day.
It has been so long since I've cut out "patches" and put a quilt block together like this; I really had to think for a bit. I'm just so used to following a pattern where I cut strips or use HST. I haven't cut out a template for a triangle in for-e-v-e-r. I have a feeling that will be changing this year, if I can stick to this BL-a-day thing.
