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Penultimate!

Finished the next-to-last batch of squares tonight. According to my calculations, (yeah that’s right – calculations!) I need to make about 70 squares more, but I’ll probably shoot for 90 or so. Never hurts to have a few extra to play with, I say.

All in all this is a pretty restrained palette of colors for me, maybe 45 fabrics and maybe a dozen silks for the stripes.

Over on QuiltArt, people are still talking about working big v. small. I’m heavily in the big camp by most measurers and have been for a long time. Now the question has morphed into “HOW do you work big?” Just a boring answer from me I’m afraid – my notebooks have graph paper pages and I sketch things out and do the math. Sometimes the drawings are just an idea of color or of general placement. Sometimes it’s an idea for piecing or for quilting. I make notes of title ideas or changes or thoughts as well as progress reports in the same couple pages. For landscapes, I guess I normally make a full-size cartoon although I can think of a few times when I did the notebook thing and just went directly to paper.

What have you been working on this week? What did you do today? I got out of work a little early and scurried home (forgetting to stop and get some stuff I needed like half and half – boohoo…). Once home I had a nice melted cheese sandwich for dinner and then headed out to the back garden again. Got the rest of it roughly hoed, took out the weeds and whatever roots I could find. Mounded up the dirt in a couple of places and yeah – planted squash. So watch out squash lovers. We’re supposed to be heading into a warm period so maybe the ground will finally warm up. The blackberries and dog roses are in full bloom – nice little sweet smell going on there.