A busy day in the patching salt mines

 Yesterday our little group spent a lot of time sewing and working on the quilts we have in progress. This work was interspersed with chatting over lunch and afternoon tea and joining 3 others on Zoom.

Our two Blue Heaven quilts are now labelled and the other two shown below on the banister have labels. We've called the green one Almost Celtic and the flower one Glenda's Flower Garden. The blocks on the design wall have now been pressed, trimmed and arranged ready for joining next time.

Then we had fun arranging our shiny blue blocks on the back of the design wall. Sizing is going to be an issue in some cases but last night, instead of sleeping, I worked out what we can do to enlarge some of the smaller blocks and add wadding where it has been trimmed off.

Then while Elaine and I were watching The Sewing Bee on Britbox we had a bit of inspiration about framing each block. Each one will be framed with purple (about a 1/2" strip, with a tiny peeper (about 1/8") of a bright colour (each block having a different colour). There will then be white sashing between all the framed blocks.

Here are some of the colours we have chosen for the peepers and we have found almost enough for each block to be different.

So of course much of my sleep time last night working out how to mitre the corners of each tiny frame!!! That way the peepers will not cross the purple frame during construction.