Tag: Sand Castles

My little stacks of quilt pieces/units is growing and taking shape. Just a few more of the center units to piece and a little less than half of the string units left to de-paper and add the sashing strips to (I’ve been using those as my leader/enders between center units). Then those can be pieced… Continue reading Growing stacks

I ran out of sets to piece, so I’ve been pulling and cutting from the rainbow of scraps I was organizing. Just a few more sets to cut, then I should be able to zoom-zoom through the rest of the piecing of this section of the blocks. It was really hard to narrow down to… Continue reading Cutting sets

Wanting to use already cut strips, if possible, I got sidetracked again by having to sort strips from multiple storage containers in order to determine whether I had enough of a particular strip/squares to complete a block. Side note: while I had sorted some of the smaller strip widths previously, I had never sorted this… Continue reading Sidetracked

Since I retired at the beginning of the year, it feels like I’m on a really long quilting retreat at home. I get up and exercise and stretch, eat and do my morning devotional, then attend to anything that needs my attention (getting everything in order is a longer process than you might think). And… Continue reading Home Retreat

The snow we’ve had this week has been the perfect complement to making the billion four-patches I need for my Sand Castles quilt. I gathered all of the ones I’d previously made and hid in my scrap bin, then I began sorting out some of the newer neutrals I’ve just been throwing into the bin… Continue reading Sewing four-patches