First a Handwork Tuesday update. I stitched a few more hexies. I should have been working on my Star-A-Day. I still have a few days to get this month’s star completed.
No, I do not have the border on Eclipse. This is not hard, but I got distracted by the Disappearing Hourglass.
This year’s continuing segment is disappearing blocks. In February I presented the Disappearing Hourglass. My sample blocks used 6″ squares cut from scraps, but I have a 28-piece layer cake that I want to use.
I bought 2 1/2 yards of Grunge in Paper White to use for the background and an inner border and made my first block last night.
I followed the Missouri Star tutorial which mean all my edges are on the bias. I just have to be careful not to stretch the blocks when I’m handling them. This block came out at 11 1/2″.
My final report is that Riviana is being assembled. I made “thousands” of HST as my leader/ender project starting in August 2022. I can’t remember If I finished making them the end of 2023 or 2024. but I knew I had misplaced 60 HST. which put a damper on things. Apparently I’ve made extra HST, as still have enough to finish the quilt. So now I’m using the split 9-patches as my leader/ender. This could take a while.
