Someday, I'll Find It!

Last week didn't go as planned.  Too many times getting in and out of a car caused my hip bursitis to flair up, so I had to slow down, sit in overstuffed chairs and work on my knitting and crochet projects.  I have a redwork project in progress, too, but it got put away somewhere last fall and I haven't seen it since. Someday, I'll find it.

This week, my internet speed has been crawling even more slowly than usual.  It's so frustrating that I don't even want to try going online most of the time.  There has to be a solution to this other than moving to the asphalt jungle.  Someday, I'll find it, too.

Meanwhile, I'm slowly progressing on my stack of half-square triangle (HST) units.  Trimming them all to the proper size is not my favorite part of the quilt-making process, but I've had little success with the method of cutting the triangles to exact size first then sewing them together -- I end up with too many HSTs that are too small and then I have to cut more triangles and sew more HSTs.  So, I stick with the more time-consuming method of cutting larger triangles, sewing them together, then trimming  them to size.  In the long run, I actually save time and fabric!

I'm hoping to get back online tomorrow to post instructions for HSTs, but Saturdays can be a bit tricky to predict -- too many unexpected things happen on Saturdays.

Sunrise, Sunset QAL: Cutting the Fabrics

I got my fabrics all cut out!

Each 8" finished "Sunrise, Sunset" block will require the following:
          2 squares 2.5" x 2.5" light fabric
          2 squares 2.5" x 2.5" dark fabric
          2 squares 3" x 3" light fabric
          2 squares 3" x 3" dark fabric

My dark fabric was my smallest piece of yardage.  If I make no mistakes along the way, I have just enough squares to make 12 blocks.  I''m currently leaning toward using nine blocks for a wall hanging and three blocks for a small table runner, but that may change along the way.

Next step: making half-square triangle units!

Quilt-Along Images: Will They Upload?

I'm trying this again with a different web browser and with smaller images -- wish me luck!

Eureka! We're getting somewhere!  These are the two heart fabrics that I'm using.

Below is the "Sunrise, Sunset" block that I've chosen.  It might be known by half a dozen other names, too -- I haven't looked it up yet in Barbara Brackman's reference book. 

And here are a few alternate colorations of this block.  It's a two-color, positive/negative block, so just about the sky's the limit with color and print options.  I'm making 8-inch finished size blocks and can get 9, maybe 12 blocks from my less-than-one-yard fabric pieces.  Larger size blocks will require larger pieces of fabrics.  Or this could make a nice scrappy project with lots of lights and darks of similar value.

Does anyone besides me see kitty heads in most of these blocks?  They seem so dominant to me that I've started thinking of the four quadrants as kitties - light and dark kitties.  So don't be confused if I slip up sometime and call something the kitty unit!