Nine Years of Quilt Blogging

As March, 2021, closes, I realized I have been doing my quilt blog for nine years.  When I began my Gluten Free Quilter blog, I did not know where it would take me.  I actually started it, because my family members were saying I was technology challenged.  I do not have a cell phone and I would say things like, "I don't do MyFace."  I think I blended My Space and Facebook . . . oh, well.  So, I started by jumping in to designing and creating my blog.  I think it looks pretty unique for a blog, and it is totally me.  What I did not count on, is how I can go back and see what I did in years past.  It is a nice historical record of my quilting and a few other things.  

At the first part of March, I took my Husqvarna in for service and they took three weeks.  I sewed some nice drapes for the upper window in my quilt room, on my old Necchi machine.  It did a great job.  To hang my drapes I had to move a lot of fabric out of the way, to get the ladder in place.  I cleaned and folded and sorted and vacuumed and dusted, and wow!

Here is Ebony stretched out in the sun, beneath the buffet.  It has not been this clean and tidy since we moved in (2015).  Kirsten and Jane's quilt room is actually set-up on the buffet, so they have a ruffled valance in the front window, on the right, and their design wall covering the left window.  Right now, all their stuff is stacked on my big table, but will be move back shortly.  Happy 2021!

One Year Anniversary of Our Global Pandemic or What's On The Design Wall in March

My Husqvarna is in the shop for a tune-up, so I am working with my Necchi sewing machine.  It has taken about a week to get re-acquainted with it, and I think I am turning out some pretty good eight point stars.  I could be sewing buttons on horses eyes, while my machine is in the shop, but why would I want to put the final touch on a quilt and then have it done?  

Today, I received my first injection of the Moderna immunization for Covid-19.  Then I got an e-mail stating that today, March 11, 2021, is the one-year anniversary of when the World Health Organization proclaimed the pandemic.  I feel I have something to remember it by, by getting my shot on this day.  Actually, my arm is the reminder, at this point.  It is a little sore, but that is just fine.  In four more weeks I get number 2 and that is the one I am worried about.  I am going to try not to think about it and just keep sewing, just keep sewing.

I hope to get my machine back by Saturday, so I can finish working on the military uniform quilt that is on my design wall.  I did make a ton of the half-square triangles on the Necchi.  I did not sew them together yet, as I do not know how long the border will need to be, once the center part of the quilt is pieced.

One of the quilt groups I belong to sent the BoM, for April, pattern to us, so I studied it and got it all cut out and the half-square triangles and flying geese parts completed, but don't want to sew them all together until I get my Husqvarna back.  I was, naturally, looking at one of the quilts I photographed at Sisters in 2018, and decided I could make the block, with my half-square triangle and flying geese skills.  So, I gave it a try and they look amazing.  I had to make more and try different color combinations. 

Jane let me use her design wall.  I actually made 15 blocks, but I did not want to remove the cone fish, thermometer, and random "cool" scraps from the wall.  I have pulled a lot of my scraps out and have made a mess of my quilt room while waiting for my sewing machine.  I originally thought having my machine in the shop would give me an opportunity to tidy up the quilt room.  But not!  And those horses still need their button eyes sewed on.