Monday, March 17, oh, my, I just realized it's St. Patrick's day...but for me, it is the 4th anniversary of when our missionary, KayLynn, arrived home from Peru!
These are the quilt blocks of my Spinning Spools quilt, completed as much as possible and packed up waiting for additional fabric to come in the mail. The original quilt is about 60" x 60" and is made up of 36 blocks. That is not big enough for a queen sized quilt, so I made as many blocks as I had fabric for and have 69 blocks completed. This morning I laid blocks out and considered how many I would need to make the larger size. I am going to make a total of 100 blocks. They go quickly and the fabric is so bright and cheery (fabric line is Nana's Pantry by Connecting Threads) that they don't seem to be much work. I do like appliqué and am happy with how they are turning out. I have to add a little lesson here that I learned.
I like to appliqué using the fusible interfacing method. I needed to buy more so, last Thursday, coupons in hand, I purchased 2 packages, 1 yard each, for about $3.45 per package. That wasn't nearly enough so, after going out to dinner with Jim on Friday night, we went to the fabric store to purchase more. I picked up 3 more packages, hoping that would be enough. I happened to pass by the interfacing by the yard display and saw that that price was $.99 per yard. I sent Jim to put the packages back while I stood in line to get my purchase cut. Then I noticed that there was a sale sign saying that it was half price! Needless to say, I stocked up. I will have to be more careful and compare prices between yardage and packaged products.
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This is what else I have been working on today. The quilt top is just a regular jelly roll quilt that I am making as a surprise for a loved one. It is completed but can't be quilted yet because I am short on the backing fabric and have to wait for my new order to arrive. While looking at various quilts on Pinterest and Google Images, I decided to add some appliqué to the quilt just to jazz it up. I couldn't help but think I was doing something my mom would do. She is always going the extra mile while I'm usually not one to step out of the box very often. It was a little time consuming, but now that it's all done, I'm very glad I put in the extra time and work. Thank's Mom, for your example.
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