I laid out the centre of the British quilt to check that the red cross was showing up. It's not as clear in the photo as in real life, but it's looking fine.  I've made all the red and white Hourglass units, and have 300 of the coloured ones, so I'm over the halfway mark.

                    

I just love these blocks of 9 units, if I have any leftovers I'll build these from them.

I even saw a quilt online made from these blocks. 

I'm in a Facebook group called QuiltHistorySouth, and this is from Martha Spark's collection. They look like 6"blo cks, so my little units would work well set like this.  I would have fun adding a bit of colour to my grey palette.

Because there are so many of the little units I'm not stressing over complete accuracy.  Once I would have unpulled this to line the centre up; now I know it will get lost in amongst it's 800 neighbours. I'm trimming them all to the right size, so it doesn't matter what's going on in the centre,

Anyway, it's all off the design wall for now, while I work on getting another project closer to completion.  What did I choose to work on?

More Hourglass units! This is a couple of years old, and it deserves to be finished. The units are 3"finished, so much easier than my little tiny ones. I'll get this in one piece soon, then I'll have to decide on borders.

I've used my time on the workroom well. This is quilt #2 for this year, a Checkered Rail in shirting fabrics. It used a Frankenbatt that Mereth pieced out of scraps that would ordinarily have been thrown away, and the backing is a plaid doona cover from the op-shop. Because it's made from recycled materials, it's really soft and cuddly. I might gift it to Shonny as a car quilt.

I've been down at Shonny's for a week now, on nanna duty. Finn turns 2 on Friday, he's getting so big. In some ways he's not a baby any more, but he still loves a cuddle and a bottle at bedtime. He's talking in sentences, has something to say about Everything, and torments the older kids. All those times they teased him are backfiring on them now; they taught him how to be annoying, and he's learned well.

He's in timeout for hitting Thomas. Let's hope he's just as quick to learn not to hit. He will always say sorry, so that's a good thing.

This morning Finn finally succeeded at turning a doorknob and let himself into the toyroom; he was mighty pleased with himself too. There's no shutting him out now, so the older kids won't have any peace. And the front door will be on the chain so he can't let himself outside. We'll have to be careful he doesn't outsmart us adults as well.