Sew I See!

As mentioned in the last entry, I've reached the point in the crumb quilt where I needed to jump in and start piecing letters and words.  The first few words'-worth 😜 of letters went pretty well, I think.  Then I thumped over a speed bump and slowed right down.   It might have been that those first letters just happened to be "easy" ones, and then I came to one that wasn't so easy.  Or maybe I just ran out of steam or got distracted... I'm not sure why, but I lost my mojo for piecing those letters.  I have quite a few left to do, and I'll get back to them soon, but I'm not going to push it, since there's no deadline.  (I've been feeling rather stressed in general, lately, so that probably has something to do with it!) If anyone's interested, I'm using the freestyle letter-piecing method outlined in  Word Play Quilts , by Tonya Ricucci.  It looks like it's out of print.  There are second-hand copies floating around out there, but I