Ah well. It is what it is.
Since my executive dysfunction was kicking in yesterday (I need to vacuum the upstairs; I need to wash the guest room bedding; can I? nooooo~) I rerouted my daily tasks to something else: unpacking the boxes of clothing that've been hanging out in my bedroom closet for months now. I went through two and a half boxes (the half being Wonderful Husband's; he gets to unpack his own clothes because I don't know where he'll want them) before I ran out of hangers. Most of it is stuff I can't wear yet, summer-weight things. But I found a few more pairs of jeans and my sweatshirts, so having those again will be nice.
I also opened a box I'd gotten a couple months ago: a quilt I bought in a Goodwill auction. If there's one that interests me, I usually only bid the minimum. This one, I bid a little bit more because I really wanted to take a pattern from it:
Isn't that cool? Despite the machine quilting, I'm pretty sure it's hand-sewn. The pieces are... not uniform, which will make pattern-taking interesting. And I'm fairly sure it's set into the background, not appliqued on top of it. This pattern is probably somewhere in Barbara Brackman's books but I don't have access to them at the moment, so I'm calling it the Circle Star quilt.
Most of the blocks are in pretty good condition for a quilt that (judging by some of the fabrics) probably dates to the 1930s. The outer border, and this one block, are, however, shreddy:
Even that's a bit useful, however. For instance, I now know that the interior is a flannel sheet, not batting. I'll need to look at this section more closely later to tease out more details. For now, however, I leave you with this sweet probably incidentally Christmas colored block:
Isn't that just so pretty?
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