Orange is a small color for most people in a long month of Saturdays. Next month is going to be a catch up month of sorts with the color being "pastel". Find all the extra light blues, light pinks, light greens. Now is the time to sort them out and use them to round out your collections. The usual colors will return next month, but for now, lets focus on those scraps that can get left behind in a rainbow hued collection. Some blocks need to be able to recede so that others can shine. In the end, that contrast will help your quilt to have a greater dimension and depth.
Tomorrow is still part of the orange month though, so take some time to polish those off if you need to. I got a few leaders and enders put together, but a couple of hours this morning should be enough to round out the collection. Everything is sitting next to the machine and ready to sew.I also pulled out a couple of flimsies to get them ready to move on the next phase. The blossom block turned into a square top which has always bothered me. So I am working on adding top and bottom borders and maybe some Dresden Plate flowers to make things more rectangular.
There is also the Hen and Chicks top which was the quilt along from 2024. I have decided to hand quilt this one. It is all basted now and ready to take to Virginia next week.
Finally, I made a quick baby quilt for a friend at work who has been having a hard time. Lots of a hard time actually. The baby isn't quite out of the NICU yet, or even back in the state, but hopefully that will happen soon and we will have a shower for him. I cut out the binding yesterday while a friend was over making a t-shirt quilt. I keep pulling out the monochromatic 16 patch blocks and using them for all sorts of things. I was going to make a Sweet Irene quilt with them. It is good to see them getting used up. Leaders and enders can get out of hand if you aren't careful.
Deanna is the biology teacher who took over my AP classes when I left the classroom to work as the College Coach. We got supplies to make t-shirt quilts as part of the new makerspace at school. I've been working with teachers to practice while we wait for everything to be ready enough for the kids to make quilts. Most of the teachers come in and make a couple of blocks and then get busy and move on to other things. We had a couple of small finished flimsies, but no quilts so far. Deanna came in with all the shirts that she has been saving for her son for the last decade plus and decided she was ready to do this. So she worked during the last couple of weeks of school to get the blocks ready, then watched some Youtube videos about how to put them together. We have a couple of donated sewing machines now, so she put the top together in two big chunks. Then she came over for the last two days and we quilted it up to make this quilt! It is huge! And heavy. And full of so many memories, just the way that t-shirt quilts are supposed to be. She wanted to have it read to put on his bed when he gets back from a summer college trip next week.
In other life updates, Sydney has found an apartment! We will help her move in the week after the 4th of July. I submitted a new draft of my literature review for my dissertation yesterday, and there are three more weeks left in this term for my other two classes. Then there is a nice long break and I am so looking forward to chopping wood, painting and helping Kurt with the master bathroom remodel and new windows in Virginia. His dad is coming up for the 4th of July and is bringing a new friend.
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