Picking Up Speed

Just last week I was looking at only 34 of these blocks.

Such slow progress; 71 seemed a long way off.

However, I spent a good portion of Wednesday

sewing with friends and away from home so

I was actually able to complete 15!

(I'm not sure I'm up to hauling around so much of my sewing stuff again anytime

soon, though!  Yikes!  How do some of you do this so often?)

To put that into perspective, I'm not sure I made

more than 6 or 8 any other day.

Not that they're that time consuming--ok, they kind

of are--but more than anything, I just found them

hard to stick with for any big length of time.

My design wall here doesn't hold all 71

but trust me when I say I completed them all

by last Wednesday...and I'm quite proud.

I'm also proud to say that I've already started my next

batch of blocks.  I may need 72 of these 

but they fly together compared to those stars.

I couldn't wait to see a few put up...

but this was not what I was hoping for.

Even knowing quilts often require stepping back

quite a bit to get a good perspective, this was just

a little disappointing.

But onward I went.

And it still wasn't making me happy till I snapped

the above picture and saw it on my phone.

Okay--now I was seeing it.

And before long, I was looking at this!

(I was really flying through the blocks and having fun at this point!)
Once again, I ran out of room on the wall and
even have more made up in a pile.
All this in one day!
I'm loving it now; my only issue is that I always
lean toward "darker" lights.  I just like them that way.
So, do you think those light blues are too dark?
I think if I'm careful to position them next to the really
dark strips whenever possible, they should be fine.

Random time:

My youngest getting ready to march for

the first time.  He's really enjoying the challenge of

being in a high school band--I think he's been ready

for that for a couple years now.

(Right in center of pic; center line, closest to the camera.)

So much going on this fall!

I'm so anxious to get the boys' football pics, along

with the buttons and the "mom's jersey".

(The players moms wear jerseys with their son's name/number in a glittery font)

Now if we could just have some football weather...