A new list, and rolling the dice

It’s taken me a while to get on to it, but I’ve finally organised a new List of Six projects for myself.  Some items are recurring, and there are a couple of new ones added.  This newly updated list contains:

1:  Strings blocks – still have enough of these to make another donation quilt.

2:  Pinwheel blocks, previously stitched together but I’ve come up with a Plan B now.

3:  Printed panels – I have two of these in the bag for another couple of donation quilts.

4:  Burgundy Log Cabin, first time on the list for this long winded UFO.

5:  House blocks, heaps of these made as Leaders and Enders some time ago.

6:  Boys Coins – another L&E project, waiting to be assembled.

Six projects on my list

And as I usually do, I roll the dice to see which number project I will work on this week.  It doesn't have to be completed, and is often not, depending on the time I have available each week, what with appointments, outing, and sometimes caravan trips away.  But as long as it is worked on and progressed a little, I’m happy.

Number Two was the lucky project this week, the pinwheel blocks.  These were my traveling HST blocks which came along on our trip to UK in 2008 when I stitched up a bunch and took them along with my Pigma pen. Memory blocks they certainly are, as I got them signed at all the accommodation we stayed, trips we took, and places of interest we visited.   Originally I decided to use them as a quilt backing.

Then I changed my mind and decided to make a table cloth instead, removing two of the rows which are now incorporated into the backing.  The first job was to get the layers were pinned on the outside table.

Pinned up and ready to go

Then some stitch in the ditch around each pinwheel block to hold it all together.

Gemma sometimes comes and joins me.  Here she is, focused on something, probably a bird I imagine, out the screen door.  I’m sure she is wishing that I would sometimes forget to close that dratted door, then she could show those birds just who is boss around here!

There are birds out there!

It has been fun reading some of the writing on the pin wheel blocks.  The very first one I had done was “Bon Voyage” written by Petra, our travel agent.  It took us three flights to get to Singapore, and airline crew kindly wrote on my blocks, although I did wonder what they thought about it.  I had a block signed by a staff member at the Singapore Flyer – so new back then that our travel agent had not heard of it!  After several days in exotic Singapore, seeing as many sights as we could, we winged our way to London.