A Finish and an In-Progress

Whee, I had a busy Friday!  After the usual morning run of household chores, I took the boys to the Play to Learn session at the Civic Center, then we came home and had lunch, before going over to the Point Defiance Zoo to meet up with my sister and niece.  (And I am very proud that I remembered to bring the duck eggs my sister asked me to order from the co-op.  And remembered to give them to her.  Sometimes I can be forgetful.)  And we were in luck; almost none of the animals were hiding!

After we got back from that, I also remembered to have Wonderful Husband hold up the Cloverleaf quilt for a finished photograph:

I'm planning to show it off at guild this week, and then Wonderful Husband can ask his friend for his address, and I can get it mailed off.

In the evening, after dinner, I also sat down and finished my first dozen log cabin blocks:

They're all pressed but not yet trimmed.  I think they'll have to be checked for that later, after I've sewn more of them, as at least a couple strips were wonky.  Which I realized after I'd sewn them on....

Miscellanea

More lots of running around yesterday.  It always takes longer with two children in tow - time to slow down my steps to match theirs, time to coax them into the car, time to get them buckled, etcetera.  But we got my planned errands done and were only fifteen minutes late to their playdate next door.  (Though, grr, I forgot to get a pair of zippers at Joanns.)

Out of the mouths of babes: Wonderful Husband and Squiddle were talking about Super Mario Odyssey, and somehow the concept of a thousand moons came up (I think there are only 880 in the game) and Wonderful Husband said that would be enough to take you to a different planet.  Squiddle: "Like Australia?!"

I'm still working on these:

Two more strips to go on two of them, one more strip to go on the other ten.  Yet I'm still nowhere near finishing off that not-very-full bag of strips, alas.  I guess I'll cut out another dozen red centers and see how far that gets me.  If I want a symmetrical layout, 64 blocks would get me an 80"x80" quilt...

ISO: Next Project

After taking care of dishes and laundry and various other necessary household tasks, I went out to the garage in search of my next sewing project.  I hauled this bin in to the workroom:

Inside were a few different multi-gallon Ziploc bags.  The biggest is devoted to "ocean colors" for a quilt or three that I want to make eventually.  But I wasn't feeling that project today, so that went back in the box.

One of the other bags, however, held strings!  So back out to the garage I went.  I actually know where my stash of "suitable for string piecing" paper is.  I brought back in a Pinetree gardening catalog from three years ago, cut it up into 8.5" squares, and pulled all the green and orange strings I could find, to make Rainbow Scrap Challenge string blocks.  Three green:

And two orange:

That worked through, I sorted a bag of 1.5" strips into light and dark:

And dug through another bag of 2.5" x 7.5" bricks, pulling out all the reds:

I took four of the red bricks, cut them into three 2.5" squares, making twelve total, and started in on making log cabin blocks ala Eleanor Burns.  I got two rounds around them before bedtime, and am debating whether to stop at three rounds (for 8" blocks) or to go for four (for 10" blocks).