Ms Grundy again

 Here's a truly Random scrap quilt made from 2 1/2 by 4 1/2" pieces and 4 1/2" squares pink plaid backing - tied with pink For some reason, someone gave me 2 Supermario panels, and one Wonder Woman panel. By just adding some 3 1/2" borders, they were large enough to make a small child's quilt. I decided that the Mario quilts would be all masculine - no pinks, pastels, or florals. I also found some navy solid fabric. That turned into pinwheels of navy/brights. I did the binding on that one yesterday.   I am still cutting navy and brights for the second.   Wonder Woman may be the same - dark/bright pinwheels, but this time including more "girly" fabrics - depends wht I find in my scraps.   I also had a big bunch of super bright orange pieces ( I don't like orange)  cut to 2 1/2 by 6 1/2" - that have become lightning stripe 6 1/2"squares. I just turned around, and a piece of green fireworks print fabric jumped out at me and demanded to be add...

cleaning up leftover sock yarn  

 I have done several Bonnie Hunter Quiltville mysteries over the years: Easy Street, Celtic Solstice, En Provence. I bought a few fat quarters for variety, but mostly had all the fabric I needed for them. I started Rhododendron Way, and still have several Blocks of tiny burgundy triangles with white backgrounds. But I didn't like the pink parts and the tiny aqua strips, so I never finished that one. I could, or I could change the colors, but I haven't yet. Last year, Indigo Way grabbed me - I had lots of those colors, and finished the entire mystery with just the scraps I had on hand This year's mystery, Old Town, the color combination puzzled me. I wasn't sure about the coral/peach and aqua with the bright red, but I had some coral and some aqua, and lots of red, so... But, then she asked us to make 4-patches that will end up only 2" square in the quilt, and I think that's too small for me. I have already got some parts done, so I'll get all the steps, but...

 Cleaning up and reorganizing fabric has its benefits: first, a navy skirt that I had never worn, and a Supermario panel became pinwheels with a red-bordered back Then a pile of odd 5 1/2" squares needed a couple added to make this (with a dusty pink floral back): Then a pile of peach tri-strips just weren't enough, but I found some pieces to add. These also ended up a strange size, since the lightest peach strips were NOT, in fact, 2 1/2". So the squares were 6 1/4" - which I trimmed to 6" before cutting more pieces.  

 Gothic Lace Doily by Elizabeth Ann White  There is only one row remaining to do, and have about 12" of thread left. But I think it looks fine just as it is.  It was not lying flat until I wet-blocked it. Super easy to do - finished it in 2 days

 My son and his family are staying with us while they empty, move, and clean their over-100-yrs-old house. We have helped, and it has sold. Both my son and his wife are do-ers. They see something that needs done, and they fix it. My husband and I are more of the wait-and-see, contemplate-options, don't-rush-anything sort. This morning, for example, my son was blowing leaves and dust out of the garage and off the driveway and patio. No one asked him to. I don't like to do that because of my allergies, and Jer moves more slowly these days. Yesterday we reorganized my sewing room. It all started with a tv. There was an old tv in my sewing room, but we had cancelled DirectTv, and it couldn't receive anything. I said they could move it into the other room to connect their game console for the kids. So they moved the console it was sitting on, which, by the way, had a bunch of VCR tapes. (We no longer have a VCR player.) Anyway, so there was a gap along the wall. So my son sugges...