Category: Sewing

I finally completed piecing row 6 to the other rows. I’ve definitely slowed down progress while I’ve been busy doing other things. Hopefully I can pick up the pace a little bit, but it all depends on how much time I can spend in my sewing room.

So the blocks are now officially past halfway being pieced. Still quite a way to go, but on the downhill slide now at least. One thing that is “slowing me down” is I’ve picked up a few other blocks and am piecing those together in between some of the piecing of this project. I’ve slotted… Continue reading And then there were 5

And the blocks are nearly halfway complete! It’s really cool to see the design take shape as each strip is added.

My cornea checkup went pretty well this week. Things are slightly worse than two years ago, but not significantly so. As long as the Fuchs’ dystrophy is still slow-progressing, we’ll just keep a watch on it. It doesn’t have anything to do with my bilateral persistent central vision scotomas (yes, they’ve named the blind spots),… Continue reading Rows 1-3

I began piecing strips into blocks for Silk Path, and so far I’ve completed sewing strips 1 and 2 together. I’ve decided to go ahead and sew in order, so now I’m starting to add strip 3 to the sets. There are quite a few, so I’m just doing this as I have time this… Continue reading Block piecing, part 1