Crafterday

Saturday was a very crafty day for me this past week.  It started in the morning with a pancake breakfast supporting our local victims assistance unit. Then a trip to Hobby Lobby with my cousin, and sewing partner, Roxanne. She had been in ill health and unable to sew with me for over a year, but has improved to the point where we have been able to sew occasionally. It has been mostly fairly "light duty" for the most part, only an hour or two. This week we got in a good bit of time, though.

It wasn't all spent sitting at the sewing machines. We were planning and plotting (replotting?) a project that had been set aside for a while. We had been working on quilt squares before she became so ill. A quilt for each of us, in fact, using the same basic block, although the execution of each quilt may be different when it comes to block placement and use of sashing. We pulled out the bag of fabrics, blocks ready to piece together, and blocks that have been pieced.

stack of quilt blocks

It had been so long that we had to figure out sizes of finished quilts again, and numbers of blocks for finished quilts. There were enough blocks cut out that we could piece a set together, though, at least!

newly constructed

We wrote things down this time, and hopefully put them where they will be referred to when needed. It felt good to refresh ourselves on this project, and feel like we could make some progress on it. I'm happy to report that the block pattern we picked is still pleasing to us both. Yay! We even discussed possible quilting designs for the finished quilts. Even though the blocks will be the same pattern for both, the finished quilts will not be identical. They will each have our person stamp on them, from layout to backing to quilting. And they will always make us think of the other. What treasure!