I forgot to take pictures before I started sewing the blocks together.  Bear Paw (43) and Aeroplane (44 & 45).  This gives me the 3 blocks for Sept 1st, plus 6 make up blocks.  That give me one week to do something else before the next set is released.

Last week I worked primarily on my Just Takes Two blocks.  Six were made — 3 from the Sept 1st release plus 3 blocks toward catch up.  I have three more blocks cut out, but those will go in next week’s report.  I almost forgot about the fabric I used for the Christmas Star.   Even though I’ve been off work all week, I’ve avoided all places to shop for fabric.

Fabric Added Since Last Report: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date:  92.802 yards

Fabric Used Since Last Report: 1.049  yards
Fabric Used to Date: 70.398 yards

Net Used for the year -22.404

yards

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This is Block 29 of Just Takes 2.  It’s called Cathedral Window.  I used paper piecing, traditional piecing and the Quilt in a Day flying geese rulers.

There’s 93 pieces in this 15″ block.  I thought I’d never get it finished.

One hour is about all my wrist can take.

None of them came home with me.

This afternoon I thought I’d watch my quilting time by checking my watch.  I thought about it last night but not until I had been quilting for a bit, not to mention my watch was sitting on my desk in the other room.

Progress today is the center melon, the other side of the arc and less than 1/4 of the center of the ring.

Part of my time was spent threading my needles so I don’t have to stop between needles.

When the episode of NCIS finished I stopped quilting for the day.  Now to find supper.  The side bar is updated and when Bonnie posts Day Two, I’ll update this LINK.

This is one of the UFO blocks from I think July.  It’s still too big, but I’m so over it.  This quilt will be a challenge to put together anyway so what’s another challenge.

I’ve been working on my Double Wedding Ring ‘forever’.  Somewhere there’s a post with the exact day, but suffice it to say I started this quilt in Sept/Oct 1989 – 24 years ago.

The hand quilting began sometime after January 5th, 2010, as that’s the date I show as completing the top. Progress has been sporadic.  I am so close to finishing the quilting — if I would just sit still and work on it.

So, I’m going to take up Bonnie’s challenge of One Hour of Simply Needle & Thread.

This is where I quilt.  I’m looking forward to moving the floor lamp out of the living room when this quilt is done. I suspect my husband is looking forward to getting the laundry basket out of the living room.

I wish I had a cute way to show the time I spent, but I haven’t figured it out yet.  I watched the last half of an episode of Leverage and then most of some wedding dress show which ran an hour.

When I started the center of this ring needed finishing.

An hour later, the center was complete and I moved the hoop to do the arc to the left.

In my side bar I  have an EQ drawing showing my progress.  I’ll try to update it everyday I quilt.

Won’t you join Bonnie and others on their quest for one hour of hand work a day?  You can see everyone’s progress HERE.

On the wall proper I have the 3″ spools that I’m making as leaders/enders when I’m working on other stuff.  26 of the nearly 400 I would like to have by next August.  Since this picture was taken I’ve made 2 more spools.

Next is the Tetris-Quilt-A-Long top that needs quilting. I hope to get to it this week so it doesn’t become a UFO.

Finally is the center of the baby quilt that my young friend is making.  The next time she comes over she’ll add the border and then start quilting it.  We just need to find something for the border.  She has the backing.

On the ironing board I have the latest release of the Just Takes 2 blocks and one of the Christmas BOM blocks.

All three of the JT2 blocks are pieced in this batch so I thought I’d try to knock them out.  I use the Quilt In A Day flying geese ruler so that was easy – right up to the point where I got carried away with my rotary cutter.  I’ll have to make two more geese to finish this block, so I thought I’d try something else.

I’m taking apart the Christmas Star block.  The pattern was made with HST, but the picture was done with flying geese and squares.  I should have printed off the pattern from EQ when I worked on this block but thought I could get away with skipping that step.  It didn’t work. The good news is I’ll be able to reuse the pieces since they are too large.

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