I had finished making the last block needed this month and laid them out this afternoon. I sewed them into diagonal rows.
Then I pulled the 3 bolts of fabric I had - the same as the background, a soft yellow and a navy blue. I consulted with the boy, who was silly enough to ask if I wanted it to be a light or dark quilt. After I rolled my eye's at him, he said to keep it the same as the background. I looked up the cutting chart for a 12 inch block. I cut the amount based on a 12.5 finished block for a little wiggle room. I did 3-19 inch blocks to make the 12 side triangles. I cut a 2- 9 3/4 squares for the corners. I got this far before I had to stop. Someone was taking a nap and did not want to get disturbed. The other parts picked up have their side triangles and corner triangles on them but the rows are not sewn to each other yet.
Emily drove me around for some errands last night. We renewed our library card at the library. Went to refill the cat litter box at Petco and then headed to Joann's to see what was happening. All the batting was gone, lots of the yarn was picked over and a bunch of things were just gone. Quilting rulers, templates, quilting templates. The yarn was 25% off. Emily found some she liked and got 16 skeins for a new afghan, along with a set of bigger crochet hooks for them. She also plans to make a t-shirt quilt in a couple years with her marching band and winter guard t-shirts. She found a thick flannel that she liked and we picked up 4 yards of a 59 inch wide fabric, just to make sure we had enough. The fabric was only 20% off from original prices. The staff was pretty teary eyed, as they are all losing their jobs sometime in May. Sigh, a sad time all around.
4 comments:
so many losing jobs....very sad...
Your Ark Trav piece is looking really pretty, Deb. Nice work on this...
hugs, Julierose
too many people are loosing jobs all over the place now - I don't have a Joanne's nearby so it is not affecting me but so many other people and now so many loosing their jobs at the National Parks too - and now to hear the meeting to decide what kind of flu shot for winter must be decided and they cancelled it!!
and meant to say love the quilt!!
Your Arkansas Traveller blocks look great together! It will be fun to see them with the setting triangles, too. Bear cracks me up! (You must have put those blocks on the floor just to make it softer for him, right?!) There are two Joann's near us - the one in Loveland was very depleted of stuff (no thread that I was looking for) when we went there on Sunday, but the one in Ft. Collins had just learned they were closing the day before, so on Monday they still had stuff. I'm going to miss them for specific items, like embroidery floss and thread!
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