Sew I See!

I'm up in the wee small hours this morning... In search of the draft of a different blog post, I found this one.  I wrote this in mid-August, apparently.  Might as well publish it, I guess!   - - - - - - - Something made me think about a feature of the good old days of blogging-- namely, "memes", writing prompts, or questionnaires.  Sometimes they were very generic, fit for anyone writing any blog on any subject, but others were designed for one particular hobby or area of interest.   I haven't come across one of those in a while, and I had a sudden hankering for one, so I decided to write some questions of my own. Maybe it's a little silly to "interview" yourself, but that's okay.  I don't mind being a little silly, when the occasion calls for it.  😜   - - - - - - - Quilt-Maker's Questionnaire When it comes to quilt-making, are you a morning lark, a night owl, or something in between? Definitely not a night owl.  I'm too afra...

I don't have much progress to report, thanks to a little thing called Hurricane Sally.   **This turned out to be a long account of the storm, for my own future reference more than anything else.  Skip to the dashed line if you're only interested in crafty updates.** At first, it looked like we might get some rain and slightly blustery conditions at most, as the forecast cone took aim at New Orleans.  Then it inched further and further to the east, and we started paying closer attention.  Still, I wasn't expecting too much.  After all, this wasn't going to be a wind storm (so far as you can say that of any  hurricane).  The main threat was storm surge and localized flooding.  Our house isn't near any rivers, and we don't tend to flood, so I wasn't too  worried.  Still, I made sure to do laundry and keep dishes washed, then filled some containers with water for drinking and filled the tub for flushing the toilet.  (The joys of ha...

Since my last blog post, I've assembled the book blocks into two quilt tops.  For the first quilt top, I joined them in the plain old regular way, and for the second, I used the webbing method.  (This wasn't intentional.  I simply didn't remember to web them when I joined the first group.)   I webbed the blocks for the "Hunter's String Stars" quilt, and that seemed to work well, from what I remember, but with these blocks, I think I found the old-fashioned method easier.  Webbing does have the benefit of allowing you to not worry so much about which piece goes where, once you've joined the blocks in one direction, but it felt more difficult to get blocks properly lined up for perpendicular seams, even though they were webbed into place.  Anyway, webbing might not be best for everyone or every quilt.  When joining the rows the "old-fashioned" way, I marked each completed strip to help me keep them in the correct order.  You can do this with pi...