Hello, and Happy 250th Anniversary Independence Day to all of my friends here in the United States. I have been hanging out alone in my studio all day, fiddling around with bits of fabric and trying not to dwell on memories of past Independence Days when we would take our young sons to my parents' house for a family cookout by the pool, with my mom and the boys splashing around in the water while my dad cooked burgers on the grill and played patriotic music on his outdoor speakers, wrapping up with neighborhood fireworks once it got dark. I miss my parents, and I miss having family holiday celebrations even though we never did anything fancy. Ah, well -- gotta enjoy the seasons we're in while we're in them, as this too shall pass and then I'll be missing when I used to be able to have a whole day all to myself in my sewing room, right? Bernie has been traveling all week and I always get the blues when he's gone, but he'll be back by tomorrow night. I get to go sing in church tomorrow morning, too, which always puts me in a good mood.
So, after all of the annoyance and frustration of the last two appliqué blocks for my Stonefields sampler quilt project (left side of the design wall below), I decided I needed a palate cleanser with some instant gratification. I remembered the Scrappy Celebrations project I abandoned a little over a year ago (read about that here) -- just what the doctor ordered.
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| Stonefields on Left, Scrappy Celebration on Right |
I made eleven new 9" blocks for this quilt today, six of them four-patch with plusses:
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| Chain Piecing Six Blocks at Once |
