A little of this and a bit of that

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The beautifully Crown of Thorns, made up of half square triangles and squares. The plum and ecru go together so well. I have heard of this block before but this is the first time I have seen it.

My day started off badly with periods of dizziness and I had to lay down for a while.
When I began to sew the machine began to eat up the fabric and jam up so it was obviously time to take it apart, clean it out and change the needle. You know that is like magic  !! I am amazed always that it takes so little to make the machine behave.

After that I started sewing the blocks for the guild. I thought they went well but upon looking at them I discovered that the triangles on one set of four blocks were on backwards. The reason why is that most of the blocks were batiks and it didn't matter which side but one set was ordinary fabric and I put them on the wrong way. And Iwas unhappy with another 2 of the blocks. So out came the ripper and off came the pieces. I repinned them and now they are ready to sew again but I am too tired to do any more sewing. It seems I can only do a bit or work and I get tired. What a pain that is. I so admire the men and ladies who can sew for hours at a time and produce so many quilt and other things.

  All wired up, isn't this clever. I wonder if it works.

I wanted to get out my embroidery machine today and get on with a few items but that did not happen. Tomorrow I am going for lunch, Tuesday it is sewing day ,Wednesday the chiropractor , dinner and guild and  so it goes LOL. But I am fortunate to be busy and able.

See what you can do with a five inch square. There are all these wonderful charm squares that can be used in settings  like these to make a quilt as opposed to just squares. I personally like just squares.

Nice sewing basket.

 

So what is going on here ? I am done for the night.

Have a lovely evening folks.

Good night.