I’m a bit of an idiot but I survived the affliction and got section 1 of 8 together for the memory quilt! The idiot part came when I was translating my graph paper map to actual sewing. I had cut my little block templates wrong for TWO of these blocks! It took a little extra cutting and sewing but I finally got it together in the right dimensions.
This section is the lower left corner. The whole quilt will, hopefully, have a 2″ border all the way around, if I have enough black fabric. I might have to include some navy blues in the mix. Before I get started on the next section I’ll try to prep all the black/dark fabrics and get a feel for how much I have.
They also brought me one additional garment, Christmas PJs from last year. I got a block made from it and replace another block that was already represented by another shirt in the quilt.
I won’t get back to this until Friday. Today and tomorrow I’ll be at sewing with my quilt club and I’ll be working on a veterans quilt. But I’m energized to get back to this now that I know what I’m doing. Also, later this week I need to get some dyeing done. I need a quilt back for this quilt, one for Mom and I need to dye fabrics for the bear quilt that I want to work on while we are on vacation in January.
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