211 squares, plus a few rejects. My first pink board is full of them. I have no idea how to lay out 640 of them LOL. Guess I’ll have to come up with a plan for that. Generally, when I’m working with small squares, it’s enough for me to see a bit of them. I lay them out overlapped by quite a bit and am good with that.

Because this has a pieced design going on I will want to see the whole thing. Oh – and yes – it’s directional. Ooops! What was I thinking?

Yesterday I managed to increase the pile of small squares by quite a lot. This type of work is not fast, not particularly efficient of time or materials but what can one do? Just keep going and let all the small slivers of trimmings pile up without end. I have an almost full bag of trimmings already. pretty to look at…

Happy ninth birthday, blog! Over the years I have moved from Blogger (still have the tshirt and wear it proudly) to WordPress; from first gen web pages to CSS.

What I first loved about the web remains the same: that people can come here through chance or otherwise and learn something about me, my life and my work. Oh yeah, ok, and those darn cats. Oh! And fruitcake. Don’t forget the fruitcake.

From early digital cameras to being able to shoot and upload directly via iPhone technology may have changed, software come and gone, etc., but the basic urge to share and communicate remains the same. To me blogs are like the journals and diaries of times past we use to piece together a view of what life was really like then.

Through the web I’ve met and known people for years – I would never have known them let alone shared news of their lives or gotten to really meet them. I am grateful for all those meetings. And it turned out we weren’t ax murderers after all.

So let the march towards year 10 begin here and now!

In quilting news I now have 65 squares made. The last batch is ironed but needs squaring up. I think it’s going ok.

Stay tuned.