Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
~Oscar Wilde

Improv Test Blocks
Date
12 January 2025
Finished processing the larger scrap strips and shelved the itsy bits. Pulling the last of…
Afterquilting
Date
11 January 2025
Basketcase needs finishing. Considered a stripe-y binding, which would look cool, but would require a…
A tisket, a tasket
Date
9 January 2025
Things are officially unweildy. Funny how fast that happens. Trying to decide if I have…
Speak no evil
Date
6 January 2025
Wasn’t crazy about any of the jaw alignments. Considered reconstructing the block with the teeth…
Crooked grin
Date
5 January 2025
Three interior rows done passably well. Some decent locks, a couple misfires but nothing quilting…
Striping the pate
Date
4 January 2025
Not perfect, but not dreadful; a few solid locks. Tried to reseam the two that…
Final Four
Date
4 January 2025
Turns out I prefer open seams. Better it take longer than leave my left eye…
14 down, 4 to go
Date
3 January 2025
Watching Karen Brown, was reminded I don’t have to be quite so precious with my…
I’m looking at the front row
Date
2 January 2025
With the initial column complete, the remaining perimeter is three groupings of four blocks each….
Ready column one
Date
1 January 2025
Ran the first block without pinning it, then ripped out two of the seams and…
Spin that record
Date
31 December 2024
Thru the worst of it with enough strips left to fussy cut the final basket…
Basket of beginnings
Date
28 December 2024
Basketcase is sized for a twin. Considering expanding to queen, but an additional row and…
Hexed
Date
27 December 2024
Made the first pillow front too large and underthought the hand quilting pattern. Was thinking…
Paper piecing progress
Date
23 December 2024
Glue basting is a go – faster, easier on the wrists, cleaner, and less tangly…
Away she goes
Date
18 December 2024
R2 brought over the cap to go with the tail. Sadly, the original yarn flower…