It is supposed to be spring. The snow is going, but the weather is still cold. It will warm up soon. I have seen robins and a blue jay. My knowledge of bird species is very small. I can only identify about eight different birds. The bird feeders in the community have been taken down. We have a resident big bear. Maybe it will move on when there is no food.

I haven’t been in my sewing room for a while. In the short time that I was in there, I was able to finish this week’s blue basket instructions.

This week we made fourteen setting triangles. All the components for the center of the quilt are finished. Maybe next week it will be sewn together. Then the fun. An appliqued border.

I’ve been sewing the binding on two community quilts.

I hope to get back to the sewing room soon to quilt another ufo community quilt. Then, I can start the quilts that I planned on my down time. I have drawn five different quilts on EQ7. All are easy scrap quilts. Three use the Cats Cradle ruler. That is a fun and quick way of making Cats Cradle blocks. It uses squares and rectangles, not triangles. It’s amazing what different look you can get by rotating the blocks or adding sashing. The blocks are accurate when trimmed. The other quilts use 2 1/2″ strips. All have easy sewing.

The Japanese fabric is organized into one drawer. I’m hoping that it will be gone when I finish the planned quilts.

The retreat is coming up. I’ve thought long and hard about what I want to make while there. At first, I thought about the Japanese fabric, but then thought about some 5″ precuts that I have in the drawer. I have two alike and one with white. They will be perfect for the “Next Generation nine patch” quilt. I just have to add some black, some long pieces of white for the borders, and a colored border. The alike precuts are fall colors. I have more than enough for the blocks and may use the leftovers in the colored border. This quilt looks more complicated than it is. It is actually very easy and doesn’t take much thinking. It is perfect for a retreat when one might get sidetracked with all the talking and fun.

Miss Molly is well. She is shaggy with her winter coat. Early next month she will go to her spa for her summer cut. Hopefully it will be warm enough by then.

Have a great day and happy quilting.

I’m so very thankful for snow days. Meetings are cancelled and I can stay home and sew all day long if I want to. I wrote a list of the projects that I am currently working on. There were five projects, not counting the ones in the hand sewing basket. There are three in there waiting for the binding to be hand sewn down. I’m not even checking the bins and baskets all around the sewing room. These five are current projects.

The Blue Basket quilt is up to date and even beyond up to date. There are twelve baskets. Each time that instruction come they are the same. We’ve had instructions for six and the other six should be the same. I have completed twelve. Now, I will have a few weeks off by doing advance work.

This week, we made seventeen nine patch units. They will be the corner squares.

This has been a fun quilt. I had hoped that it would use up more of the Kaufmann fabric, but I still have a lot. I have found three new patterns that will hopefully start deleting that fabric. The Blue Baskets has appliqued flowers on the borders. I’ll save scraps for this and cut out at least one of the quilts for the retreat from the stash,

The Stay at home Round Robin is complete. The last row is the pinwheel block. I have made lots of pinwheels, but for some reason, these pinwheels didn’t want too corporate. I had intended to have pinwheels all around the last row. Most were so terrible that I used the good ones at the top and bottom corners. I do like the way this quilt finished. It may be my most favorite SAHRR to date.

I also finished the Escher Stairs. Illusion quilts are fun to make.

Here are a few more illusion quilts.

Have a great day and happy quilting.