so so sewing

Silly title isn't it. Lots of photos tonight.
But i did manage to sew some today. It took me all afternoon to make one block for my guild partner.
It is called Whirling Geese and is actually one of a huge number of 9 patch blocks. The centre block is a gem colour turquoise as described in the guild directions , it is surrounded by half square triangles. All the squares will be 3.5 inches at the end before they are joined together. I cut the half squares for the half square triangles at four inches , then drew a line diagonally from corner to corner and drew lines 1/4 " on either side of the diagonal line on the white square, put a black and white square together face to face , pinned the 4 corners and sewed on the 2 lines on either side of the middle diagonal line. Then I cut on that middle line to make two half square triangles. I cut them down to 3.5 inches to be the same as the centre square. I did that 4 times to make 8 half square triangles.
As you can see in the following picture these are all arranged around the turquoise centre square. I'll add the block later.
Then I finished cutting the triangles off my snowball blocks, arranged them on the bed to see how I liked the arrangement and picked up each row and pinned it together. Now they are ready to sew. But not tonight. :>)
Ray went to the eye specialist early this morning and he does not have to go back for a year which is really great since he has wet Macular Degeneration. He has been very careful in following the Doctor's instructions so all is well for now.
I am satisfied with my day, bought some more yarn too....
Oh and I promised photos of my butterflies too. So on to the photos.
Buenos Noches!!