Finished all the blocks on another quilt, and am halfway through joining them, and picked out the cutest Volkswagon lookalike car print on a heavenly light turquoise/aqua fabric to go around it, along with a black houndstooth-textured black and white print that matches the V-wagons. It, too, is a log cabin like the one I finished Saturday.
I got up Sunday morning, found the red dot centers, and started cutting. Well, I cut the morning away and made nice little stacks of strips sized 1.5", 2.5", 3.5" ~~~ to 9.5" (the larger length is for a quilt I'm still designing in my head, and will reduce the number of squares while delivering a pretty result with the 1x9" outer logs that will complete the quilt. The trick is designing it so the darker side dominates, which is preferred by me, and I have to treat the groups I sew for equally, so I will be making 3 of everything. I thought it over for the past few days, and just because I got criticized for refusing to sell the charity quilts I make for next to nothing. I put between 20-30 (and sometimes more) hours per top, I worked from sunup till past dark, and I kept cutting in between same-size log completion for 28 blocks (I save out 4 blocks, just in case one or more of them "get lost" which happens in senior moments. Sometimes, when setting some of the blocks aside, they get forgotten with no total recall about anything. So I kept going after dark, not having eaten anything all day, so when I decided to bake a potato with salt, pepper, parsley, and a dab of butter for supper, I watched a movie, The Merchant of Venice, and it was really good. It had Jeremy Irons and Al Pacino(?), and Joseph Fiennes.
The Merchant of Venice (2004) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb It was nice to take a break, because I was sore in the shoulders and upper back due to cutting most of the day, and you use a lot of pressure when using a rotary mat, clear ruler with quarter inch markings and everything, on a gridded mat. Anyway, I worked from 8 am to midnight before eating. That was a 16-hour day, and I have at least another 5-20 hours working on the outer borders, depending on what different type of outer borders I decide on tomorrow. I was so tired at midnight, I just gave out. It's all for the little kids I will never see enjoying their quilts, and probably will never meet them. I nearly fainted once, when a recipient actually went to the quilt store to find out who made her child's quilt. They're not allowed (nor would we want it) to contact us, except to deliver a written message through our charity organization. Anyway, I received a nice note who loved her baby's quilt and said how happy she was to look at it, seeing how cheerful her baby was when covered with it. So I haven't slept now for 22 hours, and my feet were swollen, so I went on line to reorder some anti-inflammatory stuff for my problem. What a lot of yakkety yak! I just love quilting and lately want to finish asap, which means no exercise. I need to get back to my exercise project at the local workout place. Hope everyone has a happy week. I'm going to try to get a couple hour nap going and then, go buy blueberries. They're really good for helping reduce inflammatory issues. So good night, world and good morning.
Bless our vets!
I just love this one the most, first, due to the shadows it casts in neutrals!
