It’s Friday!

I spent HOURS yesterday watering plants and grass. It is so dry. My grass was trying to die–and this centipede grass is a water hog, for sure. It makes a mat like a rug that is 2 or more inches deep. My neighbors who have irrigation systems have grass that isn’t showing stress and browning, so I knew that mine browning was not due to fall/winter, but due to lack of water. So…watering had to happen. (My new little sprinklers are really helping as they have so many different, reliable settings that let me direct water to exactly where I want it to go.)

Here’s the last piece I’ll piece for this month’s “Hourglass” block in Tara Faughnan’s “Block 2” online class. I pretty much used up all the remaining blocks I had made and the scraps I had cut from this palette. (I just finished quilting the second half-rectangle triangle piece I did–the bright one. So now it needs facing or a binding.)

How fun is this? I’ll hand quilt it in some sort of incoherent wacky way to highlight the improv nature of this block. I also have a stack of potholders to sew–where I played with improv arrangements with this block. They’re fun. Pics when they are all done.

“Pot Pourri 4” is washed and ready to mail to a niece with a new baby girl. I like to hang a recently washed quilt over the sofa back to make sure all the moisture drys out before I mail it. And I’ll mail on Monday as I don’t like my quilts traveling on weekends.

I’ve grown very attached to this quilt–it is so lively and fun.

It is just a great scrappy quilt.

The Charleston Modern Quilt Group met this week. As always, the Show and Tell quilts were awesome. They are on that group’s open web site if you want to see more. But here is the latest from Cathy Beemer–another amazing quilt top.

I thought I was done piecing “Diamonds,” part 2 of my series with half-rectangle blocks. BUT, I realized I needed one more row as the width was 72, as planned, but the math escaped me for the length, which was only 64 inches!!! I put the top back on the design wall and thought about the issue for two days–and woke up yesterday with the best solution to extend the quilt. Yeah!!! Taking apart one row to add another inside the top was needed, and that is now done. I’m working on filling in that row. Our brains are amazing. Give them a problem to solve and give them time to solve it.

Have a great weekend folks!