Thanks for the encouragement with the colors, BJ & Wendy. I have nearly decided the color added in the log cabin block is the way its going to be whether I love it or not. I love the block, by itself. I am just now finishing the setting triangles. In other words, I am thinking the 1st pancake needs to stay whether I love it or not. No more road trips or $ invested in making this quilt. Okay, here it is:



And here it is with some of the rest of the blocks. I want to bring out the blue in those berries but the one I have just jumps out too much. I will re-examine my stash before I make anymore log cabin blocks. In the meantime, I will work on the setting triangles in the other blocks and have some lunch. I am starving.

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Everyone is making such good progress!

Lois - I love your blocks!! The colors really talk to me! I think you get a lot of sparkle from the yellow fabric, so you might not need much more. But, then again, I'm looking at a picture which probably doesn't exactly represent the colors. But I'm definitely loving them!!

BJ - I think your Yankee Puzzle blocks look great! I don't see any problems with them. I think you're just hard on yourself. Your bird blocks will look great with the others! Can't wait to see it all come together!! Are you going to put it together this weekend or wait until next week when we have that lesson?

Can't wait to see Rosemary's skirt! Now back to the grind....

Nancy

Really BJ, (wags finger) if you were going to sub any blocks you should have subbed the Yankie Puzzle, at least with log cabin you don't have to match any points up, which makes it much, much easier. You could at least add a log frame around your dickie birds

Latest up date

7. 2 more loads out on the line
8. 2 loads brought in for sorting & ironing (shirts only, certainly not socks & pants!)
9. skirt pockets dealt with!
10. just helped DH wrap cling film around the handle of the canoe paddle he is making, so he doesn't get epoxy resin where he doesn't want it yet.

Now I need to find my interfacing for the waist band, and a zip, they are here somewhere

Betty Jo love your log cabins they are so accurate

It's going to be fabulous.

Lois that fabric should work great

loise98 wrote: Lois, I love your colors!

OK, I cheated and got all caught up ready to put the quilt together. : Well, really, I found the bird blocks so compelling I wanted to use all of the ones I managed to get out of my old bird fabric, really I did. Anyway, I DID restitch my nemesis week three blocks, and, while they are somewhat better, they are STILL not fabulous. Here's the week three blocks as they are now:

And here's my week 4 blocks:

And here's my log cabin blocks...um, I mean week 5 blocks:



NOW maybe I can put this quilt top together and I will enjoy seeing everyone else's precision piecing and my DIL Beth will help me do the traditional quilt blocks when I need them for my competition pieces. Her piecing is quite fantastic.

Rosemary, I am in the laundry business too. Nancy, I am soaking a white woolen lap robe in oxi-clean trying to soak coffee stains out of it. I miss my computer but not me or other things that stain easily. In the sewing room I've added a fabric that seems to me adds a resting spot to my conglomeration of blocks. Now I am looking for a way to add just a bit more spark to it all. Hopefully, that will be in the log cabin blocks. I am ready to start on the "1st pancake" as one of the recent guests on TQS called it. Let's hope the griddle is just the right temp and I don't have to do a ton of them to get it right.

How are you getting on Rita, are those needles smoking?

So far, so good! My spills aways miss the computer for some reason. Must be a software engineer gene or something. But they never miss my shirt!!

PosyP wrote: Wonder woman!

Nancy, I hope you keep your coffee away from your computer too, when you check up on us! yuo don't want to do a 'Renata' with it.....

twiglet wrote:
Depends on how creative I want to get with my code...

Hope to see you wearing it tomorrow then Rosemary

Yeay, just got on the computer to join in, so far I have managed to
1. hang out 2 loads of washing - we have a lovely sunny day today
2. put on 2 loads of washing.
3. worked out how to mitre the corners on my reels blocks
4. cut out a new work skirt
5. gone to the bank to deposit a cheque & get some money out for tomorrow (Great Northern Quilt Show)
6. also got some food stuffs for tomorrow's packup - serrano ham & chorizo anyone?

and now I am about to see if I can get my new skirt stitched up, I've taken the pattern off a bought skirt & the pockets are trying to argue with me - we'll show them whose boss!