Yesterday marked the first measurable snowfall in the city since December 17; it's been a weird winter here in the Midwest. A couple inches fell in the morning, and then last night the winds shifted, the "Lake Effect" took over, and I awoke early this morning to the unfamiliar roar of the snow plow and the scrape-scrape-scrape of someone cleaning their windshield on the street outside my window.
Outside my window, 6:30am
It's gorgeous to look at, but my best course of action this morning was to fire up the coffee and start sewing instead of venturing out.
Excavated UFO #43
100% flannel, ~60" x 60"
I finished piecing the borders from most of the orphan blocks and scraps I found in the mystery bag with the center blocks. I have no idea what my original plan was for this quilt way back when, but judging from the number of strip sets, there were more of those 25-patch blocks from the upper left corner in the works. They're cute, but 1" flannel squares are bulky and I didn't have the patience to do anything more with them other than string them together to put in the borders. I do love me some flying geese, though (especially flannel ones!), so I may have to keep those in mind for another project. The top and bottom borders are different widths (hey, working with what I had), and it's a little wavy and wonky, but I can live with it.
Since there wasn't any goal in mind besides finishing the top and making room in the bin for another UFO, this will probably sit in limbo for a while. It would have been nice to have it all done and snuggle under it today, but there are other quilts for snuggling.
For now, I'm happy to be able to cross this one off my list.
3 comments:
Regardless of what your original plan was for this quilt, I don't think it could have been any more beautiful. This quilt is just awesome! Love how you did the borders. It really needs to be quilted instead of put back in the stack. It has been a strange and mild winter in VA. Only one snow for us back in January. We have a few cold days/nights and then a few days with temps in the 60s and 70s and sometimes 80s. Right now, it's really cold but we get warmer weather by next week. Hope you enjoy your snow! You've certainly been productive.
The border size difference is hardly noticeable and you made great uses of pieces and parts and scraps for the border. I wouldn't want to deal with 1" squares in flannel either. I'm always looking for good big block patterns for my flannel quilts.
Look at all that snow!!! Amazing! Freezing but wow, so pretty.
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