Somebody tell Mother Nature that the last day of winter was yesterday. It is cold today, and windy
It was windy last week when I cleaned off the garden, and the strangest thing happened. I'd pulled up the fence posts and rolled up the fence wire and had taken up most of last year's landscape fabric, with one more row to do. By that time, I was tired and was considering leaving that last row for another day. As I stood there deliberating, leaves started whirling in a circle around me, and it went on long enough for me to think about the Bible story of Elijah getting taken up by a whirlwind. I kind of giggled and said (out loud), "NOT YET!" And I went ahead and peeled up that last row of landscape fabric.
It was just a little bizarre, if you want to know the truth.
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Last night, I finished sewing together the first two rows of #3's quilt. I took out the basting stitches and pressed the seam. It was nice and straight, but the vertical seams don't quite match. Screw it. I'm forging ahead. Now that I've discovered that the blind-stitching is much easier if I machine baste it, first, I can make some progress.
Although I quilted the blocks before stitching them together, there is still some quilting to be done in the areas where the blocks join. I marked off 4 heart shapes in those corners and will do that quilting as I join the rows, rather than handling the whole quilt for that process.
I don't have a plan for today. Maybe I'll paint.
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