Building Blocks

 

The quilt is coming along, but the pieces are NOT sewn together. This is just how I think they are going to fit together and the fabrics I think will fit in the empty spaces.

Because I am short, and ladders and I are not always on the best of terms, I moved the top half of the quilt to the floor, so I can access the pieces more easily. This was rather tricky. You can see the large rulers which helped me work out the area I'm working with.

At this point the birds aren't lined up in regular rows, so everything is "fiddly."

An aside:

While I work in the studio I often stream something that provides some background noise. As I was working on this, I was streaming something called "Make It at Market," from BritBox. It's about professional craftspeople helping amateur crafters make the jump from amateur to Business Owner. We see various craftspeople describe their work. A basketmaker just described something as "fiddly." She was from Wales. So clearly the term "fiddly" has a more widespread use than my student last week imagined.

I'm glad I use pins and always check what I'm doing. Had I not used pins I would have sewn this wrong.

This is the upper right corner of the quilt. There is a set-in-square above the middle bird in the bottom row. There will be another one above the head of the bird on the lower left.

Here is where I am so far. It doesn't look like much, but there is so much thinking involved that it's really slow going.

I also got my vegetable garden going. It will be small, only one zucchini plant, one cucumber plant, a row of bush beans and a row of snap peas. I have a tomato plant, and one cherry tomato plant, and two pepper plants, one sweet and one spicy. All this in addition to the usual herbs that I plant every year in containers. I planted marigolds in the garden also. They are good companion plants for tomatoes and peppers.