The Lake Gaston Piecemakers Quilt Guild meets every Wednesday for one reason or another. The first Wednesday of the month is Scrappies. Those of us who love scrap quilts bring our projects to a local church gathering room and sew together, enjoying the cameraderie in an otherwise solitary pursuit.
Today, eight women joined me to cut more 5" squares from the last of the fabric manufacturers' samples as well as a huge garbage bag full of scraps that a lady from my community had given me for potential use by the guild. After two hours, we had pretty much cut what could be cut from all of the fabrics, and now it falls to me to divide them up into designer or color sorted packets for use in one of our Outreach quilts this month.
Next Wednesday is our guild meeting, during which these packets will be distributed to anyone who wants to participate in the Disappearing Nine Patch marathon on the following two Wednesdays.
This cluster of purples caught my eye, especially the set of patches with the soft peach in them. If no one claims this set, I'm going to make another D9P with these and use a rich peach as the "pop" fabric in the middle of each block.
Meanwhile, my Lucinda Brodie progresses, albeit slowly. The flying geese, above, are ready to go as soon as I make the last 30 of them. During this week, while DH is waiting to start his new job next Monday, we two have been doing household projects here and there, which has diverted my focused energy from getting my basic building blocks done for my quilt. However, tomorrow, DH is going to his new job to set up his tool boxes in their (hopefully) permanent home, and I have decided to stay home and sew to make up for lost time.
I'll miss him... for a while.
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