This time of year always seems to just speed by. But even though that's expected, it's a bit hard to believe that we've only got two more days in October. I've been looking over my 2017 Quilt Plan trying to decide what the goal for November will be. Do I want finishes or progress on other neglected projects? What's the plan for 2018? It may seem early to think like that, but I'm already planning next year's goals for work. That type of thinking always bleeds over to what's going on at home.
Work has slowed down a little, but I'm still either working late or doing some homework during the evening. I managed to find time to stitch 6 out of the last 7 days. I made the trek to the sewing room Friday evening and realized that an early bedtime made a lot more sense than forcing my tried brain to attempt anything else.
Not much out of the stash this week. The main goal in the sewing room has been to get En Provence to the finished flimsy stage. Most of fabric for those blocks has already been counted, so most of what's going out is for the leaders and enders project.
Used last week: 0.44 yards
Used year to date: 50.58 yards
Every little bit out helps.
I did find time one evening to download a new toy.
I upgraded from EQ7 to EQ8 this week. I haven't really looked over any of the documentation yet, I've just opened a few existing EQ7 files in the new version and played around a bit. It took me a few tries to find the libraries and functions. I've not tried designing anything new yet. I've had some issues with EQ7 playing well with the new computer, so I was hoping that EQ8 would get me around that issue. So far so good.
Linking up the Quiltpaintcreate for the weekly stash report.
Its cold and rainy today. I'm supposed to be off today, but I ventured into work to be sure My Guy didn't have to face today's lunch time trivia competition on his own. The rest of our 4 person team is off today and he'd have been on his own. We didn't win, but we held our own, hopefully we are still in second place after today's round.
I've spent the rest of the day watching over Drama Teen who had her wisdom teeth out yesterday. She's doing pretty well. I was going to post a picture of her from yesterday showing how out of it she was, and then decided that really wasn't fair. She's hurting more today then she did yesterday, so I brought home some new movies for this afternoon to help her keep her mind off of it. So far she's taken a couple of Tylenol tablets, but none of the pain medication the doctor prescribed for her. Thanks for all the well wishes
In between reminding DT to take her antibiotic and making sure she has something that she can actually eat without really eating, I've been upstairs stitching. Last year one of my goals was to make a quilt using one of my specialty rulers. I've got a whole rack of those "special" rulers that pretty much just gather dust. I have good intentions, but for some reason, I never get around to learning how to use any of them. Well that was true up until last month. The blocks in my Christmas Angels quilt use 4.5 inch Triangle in a Square blocks. I was contemplating making all 48 blocks I needed by paper piecing them, but that didn't sound like a lot of fun. I was reorganizing the sewing room one afternoon and found this.
I struggle with templates, so I wasn't sure these rulers would work. But I gave it a go. I cut out my triangles using the ruler on the right and made the side triangles from 3" x 6" rectangles.
Then starting assembling the blocks.
You line up the cut off tip of the equilateral triangle with the first right triangle. Stitch and then line up the second right triangle with the the tip created by the first.
Finally you use the ruler with the triangle traced on it to trim the block.
Repeat that 48 times and one has all the Triangle in a Square blocks needed for a whole quilt.
I like these two little rulers. I have no clue where I came across this ruler set, but the The Quilt in a Day web page shows they are available for order . So not quite a year later, I finally met my 2012 goal of using at least one of my specialty rulers. Maybe I need to pick out another one from the rack and design a quilt using it. Sounds like a goal for next year.
