The weather and the weekend

If I wasn't taking part in NaBloPoMo this month, I probably wouldn't do a blog post today. It's been muggy hot, so I haven't done much. Is that a good enough reason, I wonder - to blame it on the weather? Oh, and it's Saturday. So, the weather and the weekend.

And because it is the weekend, I have done a bit of sewing. For the next round robin border, I have to make 14 crazy-patch foundation blocks, 8 inches square. So far I've completed five. Except mine aren't all 8 inches, and they certainly aren't square. They end up being trimmed down to 6.5 inches, so I've taken a few liberties with the sizing, as in, they're probably more like 7 inches, kinda-squareish. Yeah, I hate wasting fabric. Why make something so much bigger, if you're just going to trim a big chunk of it off anyway?

There probably is a good reason; and I'm sure in due course I will find out what it is and add it to my store of knowledge.

No progress photos though; things are rather messy down in the sewing room.

Unfinished art quilt experiment from 2010: 4" squares of calico which I hand-dyed.

What I learned today (and/or yesterday) is that if you don't have a relevant photo to add to your blog post, just add something else, because the large majority of blog readers would like to look at something.

found

Yeah, so I found the missing fabric. I went a-hunting through my Small Scraps Tub, and found some reasonably-sized scraps of said fabric.

UFO containing missing blue fabric

And then I remembered.

I had already used the two blue fat quarters, and the reasonably-sized scraps were all that were left. Aaaaggghhhh! I'm not upset that the fabric was used. I'm mad at myself for not even remembering!


What I learned today is that I need to keep my UFOs in plain sight, rather than hidden away in the Depths of Beyond in my sewing room.

Getting older is not all it's cracked up to be. With age comes wisdom? Not necessarily.