Very Productive Day
Filed under: Just Life, Quilting on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 by Deanna Gottreu | No CommentsGot up at six forty-five this morning and after I finished Brian’s lunch I sat at the computer doing online searches and reading emails for a couple of hours. Then I decided that I would go back to bed since I had not had eight hours of sleep. I got in bed and was not falling asleep so I said to myself that it was silly to go back to bed after being up for two hours so I got up and got busy.
I pressed about thirty yards of Christmas material and then cut it into twelve-inch strips. Then I decided to get all my Christmas fabric out and divide into different stacks to see exactly what I had. I ended up with piles of yardage to cut into strips, panels to quilt as is, small pieces that will make maybe two blocks, appliqués, fabric that has glitter like material woven or printed on the surface, and the final pile was fabric to take to the thrift shop. The thrift shop is getting a thirty-gallon trash bag full of Christmas fabric. There are even some finished Christmas stockings in the pile. I just remembered that I did not get out the fabric that is printed with poinsettias but at least it is all in one container. I had thought originally that I would not use the poinsettia fabric but have decided to go ahead and use it and get it out of here.
I figured up today that if I make the quilts forty-eight inches by sixty inches that will require twenty block on each side for a total of forty blocks per quilt. Since I am aiming for forty quilts that is one thousand and six hundred blocks. Actually there will be less for I am making the front of some of the quilts from panels. However the panels will need blocks or strips to make them the correct size.
Not too long until midnight so I am off to bed for I am very sleepy and have lots I want to do tomorrow. Would love to get two or three panels quilted. At least I can keep changing between pressing, cutting, sewing blocks together, and quilting panels so I do not get tired of doing the same thing all day long.






