If you're going to rise, you might as well shine.
Quilting
We're feeling better and now trying to reschedule all the appointments we missed this fall. We voted by mail and verified our ballots have been accepted. As Nann said, “May the best woman win.” There's a lot of yard- and house work to catch up on. We aren't at full strength yet but improving daily. I restarted exercise classes and am worn out after each. Again, it will get better.
I've washed as much red out of the nine-patch quilt as I possibly can. The white background of that lovely floral is still pink but I'm out of ideas of how to remove it. It's folded up again. Waiting. The other two quilts cleaned up very well though.
Fortunately, there's still a lot of partially processed quilt blocks/sets that make quilting easier. Blues and greens are the next combination of coins for a baby quilt. I sewed the sets a few years ago, rolled them into tight cylinders. and set them in my scrap bag. Now is the time to use them up.
W was the hardest letter to create. Truncating the corners of the letter made it easier. I used that effect for previous letters like V, too. When the letters are angled I find making a template works best. Afterwards I pin the templates together in case they are needed for future words.
When I first started this series, each quilt was four different colors - one for each letter. However, the Arkansas quilts showed well two color choices work.
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| WISH baby quilt |
Quilt Specifics
Size: 45” x 45”
Design: Coin or String quilt
Batting: Mountain Mist Cream Rose Cotton
Thread: green Superior Masterpiece cotton
Quilting: spiral with walking foot
Approximate yardage: 5.5 yds
Reading
The subtitle of Cat Bohannon's book explains her premise: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Evolution. She notes that the past century of research has focused almost exclusively on males, leaving us with less than half the information we should have on everything from medical care and drug interactions to anthropological studies.
Cat chooses points on the evolutionary timeline that illuminate changes that led to the development mammals and humans. The book is densely packed with information but provides a very different explanation that all the previous male-centric theories. Definitely worth reading.
4 comments:
The baby quilt is gorgeous! Love it!
Another fun four letter quilt! The front has just enough pink/red to accelerate the coordination to that backing fabric.
I am glad you all are feeling better. It does take time and hard work! Hard work is good work! After 8 months of going to my kinesiologist/chiropractor/functional nutritionist, the aches in my hips and legs have reduced so that I don't have to take OTC pain killers nearly as often. I feel like I will be able to get back to some kind of exercise to strengthen myself especially my legs.
I will have to check again to see if my ballot was received. I agree with Nann!
Another delightful quilt Ann. Having the coin sets already made & waiting for inspiration is such a good idea.
Just catching up on some blog reading. So sorry for your illnesses and also your quilty troubles. It really is quite disheartening, all of it. Glad to hear you are on the upswing and hope you don't overdo. I still feel like we're playing catch up from our troubles much, much earlier in the year. My head practically swims sometimes from the compulsion to push ahead and try to get done everything that I think has been neglected. Loving your sweet little baby quilt. I've been thinking about how you have a sort of formula for your baby quilts now and wondering if maybe that should be my new mantra for mine.:)
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