Linda's quilt, baby quilt cut, layout of finished B=D blocks

Hmm....insider trading all the while jerking around our US economy like a yo-yo and making us the laughing stock of the rest of the world. Is there nothing this person won't do to line their own and their wealthy cronies pockets further?

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Sunday morning (4/6) I hopped up, full of energy for a what I hoped was a full day of work!  I set up the pattern and kicked off quilting on Linda’s first quilt: 

And then I started to work on cutting for a new Thursday project.  Remember I said I spent the last half hour of quilting last week writing out cutting directions?  Well, it is for a baby quilt.  Our glaucoma doctor is having a baby and she is of Indian heritage.  I went to fellow Thursday quilter Kundan and said ‘’if someone asked me for American colors…I would say red/white/blue…what would you say were Indian colors…and she said red/orange/green/yellow.  I was thrilled since I need 4 colors for the pattern I want to do (which is that scrap block Janice did while I was there):

so this is what I pulled: 

and started to cut: 

By 2 PM my customer quilt was finished and I started trimming it….and I got everything cut to start the new project this Thursday:

Michael joined me in the studio and started to layout the blocks I just finished last Thursday. It's a Beds=Dreams quilt so it's pretty big: 

By dinnertime I had also finished the orange set of the hourglass blocks: 

So that’s 2 down and only 4 more colors to go :~). 

Since Michael and I were both downstairs....all of our furry kids were down there as well...and there was a little bit of detente going on....

We haven’t had ARBY’s fish sandwiches in forever, so that was dinner and I got to knit in the evening.  It was a wonderful day and I felt very productive!

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I was up early Monday (4/7) to pick up Sally:

and head out to breakfast.  We had a wonderful time and when I took her home it was still raining rather hard, so we sat in the car in the driveway and talked and talked and talked….it was so cozy!!! 

I got a call from Linda wanting to pick up her quilt, so I finally headed home around NOON.  I handed off the quilt and headed to the studio.  Remember I told you I cut everything for the baby quilt yesterday?  Well, while I was lying in bed last night…trying to fall asleep….I couldn’t make the block work out in my head.  When I started the write the cutting directions at quilting….I didn’t have a picture of the block….just what I remembered from being at Janice’s.  She sent me another pic of it, but by then I was home.  Anyway, I got up this morning and gave the picture another look….turns out I only cut for 4 snowball corner blocks in each finished 16’’ block…and there are actually 8….so I pulled out my black and white bolts and cut the additional pieces I need.  Good thing I went to sleep thinking about it…. 

After that I loaded up Linda’s second quilt:

but I was tired after that and so I finished up for the day and just read for a bit before dinner.

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I was so enamored by Michael’s layout of my new blocks on Sunday, that I hopped up Tuesday morning (4/8) ready to start sewing them together:

I also set up the program and kicked off the quilting on Linda’s fall quilt: 

I sewed until around 11 AM when we left for a doctor’s appointment. 

Michael has some neuropathy damage to his feet and was recommended to a specialist to see if he can gain back some nerve function.  He has to have a series of treatments, twice a week, for a period of weeks and I went with him to the first appointment. 

We stopped at LOWE’s on the way home…trying to find a part to fix our screen door and hitting the garden center and didn’t get home until around 3 PM.  It was back to the ‘’longarm salt mines’’ after that, but it was worth it as by the time Michael left for the movies, Linda’s second quilt was halfway done, and I was halfway through sewing my Thursday blocks into columns.

And 10 years ago....

-Food and Fiber Floozie: Cookie & Elsie

-Food and Fiber Floozie: Easter Basket, cupcakes, spring flowers

-Food and Fiber Floozie: more butterflies, Michael's airplane bag started

*** It's time to cut negative people out of your life....just don't use your fabric scissors! ***

*** Sometimes I wonder what happened to the people who asked me for directions. ***