Tonight is Hockey Night. Every Saturday night, we always watch hockey and eat Vince's special homemade pizza. He even makes the dough from scratch. I gotta tell ya', I've eaten a lot of pizzas in my life and there are quite a few wonderful ones out there. Vince's is one of them.
Then I pick up a project to keep me awake during the game. I have to be picky here. Some projects just aren't stimulating enough to keep these peepers open. Anyway, lately I've been thinking a lot about a Liberated Mizz Jane (Dear Jane) quilt. I haven't had any success finding one on the web, so I put it out there to my cronies in my yahoo group, and none of them have seen one either.
I thought, what a perfect project for in front of the game! I'm already doing the DJ blocks, but that's sporadically. I think the reason for that is I'm really a liberated gal at heart. I can't play nice all the time. So, I tried A-1 in the liberated style. Let me warn you, this is not the block to try it on. It came out sooooo disjointed that I scrapped it and am starting over. LOL, by the time I get settled how I want to do this, I'll probably have so many A-1s that I can make a whole quilt of them! Well, a babydoll quilt anyway.
The first attempt at A-1 was skewing of the HSTs and changing the block sizes and angles. It looked like a ticker-tape parade when I was done. This next one, I'll make a bit like the Wonky Stars, I think, with a couple of the pinwheel arms bigger than the other two (and one smaller). I'll also take the outer ring of HSTs and simplify them into 4 "pennents" instead of 8 triangles. We'll see how that one looks.
Tomorrow I'll post more pics, including the failure.
I'm gearing up for the retreat the Lib Quilters group is having Monday and Tuesday. I think just one more day of sewing binding and shams and I'll be able to call it done. I hope my wrist will let it happen.
Oh, and on that, the doctor postponed the appointment for another month. Can we just say I'm a little frustrated about that? I used to run a horse stable: buck bales, throw feed, break horses, etc.... Now I can't even do anything. I'm not whining or complaining, I'm just ... Okay, maybe I am whining a bit. Never mind. Michele, if you're reading this, I sympathize completely with your plight!
Where was I? Oh yeah! The retreat. Well, hopefully I'll have Karen's all DONE. I'll make a nice-nice pic of that for y'all. I'm hoping to work on the borders for my Prairie Children quilt. I want to make trees in the layered waves fashion, crosscut. You'll see.
Then, there's another Friday Night Sew-in February 19th. Excited about that, too.
Come back and see pics tomorrow.
-Wendy
2 comments:
Oh shucks about the appointment.
Yup - looking forward to tomorrow and Tuesday!
What's the one on the 19th?
The pizza looks great!
Sorry about your wrist. You sure are managing to get a lot accomplished. Have fun at your retreat.
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