The bottom row is put together, so I just need to put all the other red sashing and black cornerstones on and then make a border or two.
Meanwhile on the farm, my sons convinced me to hire someone to help get the garden in and the hoop house ready to plant. I feel so behind this year. We brought 14 bales of peat moss and 21 bags of all purpose sand home today in 4 trips to Lowes. Our boxes were getting depleted from weeding and produce. Seems whatever you take out, takes a bit of dirt with it and after a few crops, one needs to replenish the beds. We still need to do something to lighten up the soil on our hillside beds – haven’t thought that one through yet. There will be a good number of potatoes out there plus garlic and squash and cruciferous plants, which need room. And I still have not started my plants. That must happen this week!
Using the free pattern by “aquiltedpassion“, I cut two 10” squares from my cotton fabric (or for reversible, use 2 different pieces) and 2 pieces of cotton batting a bit smaller. This must be the Warm and Natural batting made for microwave use. JoAnn’s carries it as do other stores. Also use cotton thread as you do NOT want a microwave fire.
Next topstitch around which also closes the opening through which you turned this.
I found this trying to hide under some other items, so decided to finish it to the flimsy stage. Even the borders were in the scrap pile since I had cut them for another quilt and changed my mind. I think sometimes ufos get to be ufos when they are forgotten simply because something gets laid of top of them and they aren’t seen – like this one.
The borders still need to be attached and at this point, all the pieces are just stuck down. I still need to sew around each of these pieces and there are many of them. But the story of my life these days, seems to be a bit of this and a bit of that until it is finished. For several days, I was able to just put a few pieces on each day and the same thing is happening with knitting the socks. I am mostly using time between appointments or when waiting for someone. I told DH this morning that I need 4-5 consecutive hours to get the quilting machine going again. Maybe soon. Meanwhile, I will live with bits and pieces as things do get done that way.
It starts with having to overlap two fabrics a bit and then cut a wavy line where they meet. Take the two fabrics and now put right sides together. Some of mine were a bit to wavy and more difficult to match the edges and stitch. There are 5 more fish to add to the scene.
The red and yellow are from my library of fabrics. All the churn dash blocks are from some squares gifted me. I was so happy to put them to good use. And I am delighted this is now a completed flimsy. I used the GO Churn Dash die to cut them. That was really fast. Now if I hadn’t had such a cough when I put them together, they would have taken half the time since I would have connected the right pieces together the first time. But life has its up and downs. Now I’m all better, and I probably should make another.
The quilt is sporting a few more blocks tonight. Several were done and redone because when you aren’t up to par, neither is your brain. Soon, though, all will be back to normal.![IMG_4055[1]](http://fiberadventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/IMG_40551-e1456880447915-283x300.jpg)
