After all the media hype about the horrible storm we would be having last night, the power went out about 5 PM, and we were prepared, so immediately built a fire.   Alas, my son was so disappointed when an hour later the power was back on.   I was happy that the storm did not materialize as forecast.  We have one tree down.

These are squares and rectangles I worked on last week for the Gift Wrapped Table runner.

To continue making the rest of that block I needed to add a triangle across the top of a rectangle.  The easiest way to do that is to press the square in half

then sew across the diagonal with right sides together

I then went back and sewed about a foot’s distance away.

In this way, the little pieces that I cut off are all ready sewn together and in another project I can use those half square triangles.

So putting the pieces I made last time with these, created this piece.

I turned one upside down so all the yellow pieces formed a bow.  There are 12 of these with more blocks to make.  Keep tuned until this Gift Wrapped table runner becomes a reality.