A Little Bit of This and A Little Bit of That

I started another Quarter Log Cabin quilt. All the strips are free cut and the plan is the set the blocks on the diagonal this time. Right now it's just an excuse to get me in the quilt room and actually sewing.

Quarter Log Cabin #2

Everything seems to take an enormous amount of effort these days, so complex is totally out of the question. Much too easy to short circuit my brain these days. I'll probably end up doing a Quarter Log Cabin series as I'm already contemplating a different setting/color palette to play with.

Ormes Inspired

Finished up with the main part of Ormes Inspired! All the applique is done and I've even managed to get the background trimmed down, which was harder than you might think. It's wider than it is tall so a really, really awkward size. Right now I'm trying to figure out a super easy border that won't distract from the applique but will sort of even out the odd dimensions. Feeling sooo relieved that the applique filled up the space adequately and there are no glaringly odd areas. I had to add a third tulip up under the larger light green flower and really squeeeeze the flower in under the elephants trunk to make it work. Otherwise, everything else is about where it was supposed to be.*Whew!  This feels like a big accomplishment, but I think it's just because all the applique was applied to one large background and all 'eyeballed'. Sometimes there are just not nearly enough fingers to cross while you're working through certain projects. Might as well cross a few toes at the same time...*wink

A few face masks

Spent some precious quilting time on making a few face masks, I think 15 in all? Some had already beeen given away when I took this pic. Not terribly difficult but not at all fun. Like Kathy has mentioned a time or two, it honestly feels like negative energy in the quilting room. Just can't quite get to that Kumbaya moment like I'm 'supposed' to. Sue me. I'm already out of the softer elastic though and decided to only make a few with the stiffer stuff as no one will want to wear those for very long. Our area is very rural and quite spread out. Right now we're at .036 percentage of our population who have positive cases {way less than 1%} so not very alarming at this point. Even the next county over with more cases is still way under 1% positive cases and I only go to one of the smaller towns for groceries these days anyway. Gave masks to my parents and immediate family and that's that. I'm done there for now.

Tried a new recipe

Made a couple strawberry/raspberry pies for Easter Sunday. Used this recipe here though I only used two kinds of berries instead of four. Wonderfully fresh tasting pie! So much better than the store bought glaze flavor. Had to wait and wait on the Walmart guy to round up some more strawberries from the back of the store, but so worth it. And he was so nice about it, unlike the girl I asked. Feeling sorry for how long their days must be lately with all the extra stocking hours. Easter might have been totally different from our normal holiday but we could still have pie. Just couldn't go home without at least trying, right?