A New Little Something

 It's ironic that the title of my last post was Restoring Some Order, and yet it took me hours to make Blogger behave and get my words in order and do what I wanted it to do. The formatting was all over the place, the pictures were sideways or butted up against the margins, paragraphs non-existent. In the end I gave up and just published it. Lets hope it behaves today. (Nope. Still no paragraphs, and 5  different text sizes, even though they're all the same in the draft. Looks like I'll have to struggle with this too.)

I've been doing some dull stuff like cutting more HSTs for This And That, and sewing some blocks together before I move them off the design wall.  I also tracked down the blogpost from 2012 where I talked about how I made the original. They are very easy to make, and if you spin all the seam intersections then all the seams nest nicely throughout the entire quilt.

It was lovely weather this morning, not too hot, so I spent it in the kitchen. It's been awful lately, so meals are usually a bowl of salad or something heated in the microwave. Or I just don't bother. I can prepare the ingredients I need for several salads and just throw them together quickly at meal times. We have two really hot days coming up, so I think it will be more simple salads, dips and crackers, and lots of ice water. Even though I'm in the AC for the worst of it I still have to drink lots of water. 19 more days of official summer, so the end is in sight I hope.

I may have succumbed to Taryn's quilt along, but I don't do tiny blocks. (I don't do Instagram either, I followed a link from Facebook, but I have no idea how to navigate Instagram. )

I want the material to shine, and the prints and colours to show up, so I don't like sewing teeny fragments of cloth together.  I'm going to do 6" finished blocks, which makes those little triangles 1" finished.

That's still tiny, but the 2" squares allow the material to show off.  

I realised that I have dies in 1" finished triangles and squares. I cut a few today and made a couple units to see if they were accurate enough and they were.

 It will take a lot of the pressure off if I just have to run larger pieces through the Accuquilt.

I'd love to use some precious scraps in  these little blocks, some of those treasured pieces that are down to the last scrap. 

Maybe this little scrap will find a home after 25 years, 

I will also use a lot of my madder prints, because they have both tiny prints and bolder ones that I can mix and match through the blocks. 

I have a cream for the background picked out, so I hope there's enough there to make a decent size quilt.  I really should take time to draw it out in EQ8, so I know what to expect.

Now to pack it up in a project box and get ready to quilt along with everyone else.