Plague Edition

 Ach, I have a doozy of a cold, flat out misery making.  The last 2 days have been horrible, I slept for long stretches and tried to give myself time to recover. I feel marginally better today, all dosed up with cold medication and stuff for my headache. This is the first time since 2020 that I have a cold that wasn't passed on from my family. I'm always so careful when I go out, but I attended a lot of appointments last week, without a mask, and some germ moved in.  I will get a batch of chicken soup in the IntantPot and that will help I'm sure.

What were some of these appointments? For a start there was a sale at a sewing shop featuring $5 a metre fabric.  Most of the cheap fabrics were panels, and even at that price not a lot of people were interested. Mereth and I certainly weren't, so most of what we bought was $9 a metre.

You can't ever have too many blues or greens.

These are cheerful colours, very welcome, but I wish I'd bought more of that map fabric. Sometimes being sensible is regrettable. 

 I kept within my budget, buying mostly half metres of useful blenders, but there were 2 Martha Negley fabrics that I grabbed. 

Such beautiful colours and patterns.

 I really want to make a Mathemagical quilt, using my Kaffes and other splashy bright fabrics. but I don't have very many now. I need 12 FQs, and I would be scratching to come up with that many, so these gorgeous fabrics will fill the gaps.  I absolutely do not want to walk into a quilt shop and buy more Kaffe FQs, after working to get them out of my stash.

There was also a trip back to the closing sale of a craft shop, because he's now offering a 40% discount.  He's a bit pricey, so such a big discount still leaves some things not cheap enough, We went for widebacks, scissors, some magnifying aids and some spinning supplies.  

Next month, the discount goes to 50% off, so I will have a look at more spinning stuff and some cross stitch supplies. 

What else have I been doing? I got the borders on the blue Square within A Square top, and it looks very nice.

 Snowballing all those corners took so much time, but I do like the look of it. I got the idea from a picture on Jo's Country Junction, one of Ray's charity quilts. It's the 4th photo. There are so many ideas out there, and it was a great idea to make a quilt a bit special.

I think that's only my 3rd finish this year, I've been sewing, but not completing much. I made dozens of blocks from my 2.5" strips, but I don't feel compelled to sew them into tops. I need to have a big shake up when I feel better, and decide what to work on next.

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