I had such a great day yesterday. I’d missed the last two sewing days of the Melbourne Modern Quilt Guild because of Moshe’s illness, and it was so good to be back yesterday. Check out our Flickr Photostream later today. I’ll upload pictures of some really awesome work the members are doing! Many thanks to Rachel, I learned the art of chain stitching – it’s fabulous – it saves so much time and so much cotton! And Rachel also helped me out of my brain freeze by putting my little squares together into sets of four to make up my blocks for my Raw Edge Circle Quilt. Remember these?

48 blocks cut into quarters, ready to be mixed and re-grouped

After months of headaches over these babies, I finally got half of the blocks sewn up, with the other half, halfway done!

24 blocks down, 24 to go

Can’t believe that after months of not being able to handle the problem of mixing up all those little squares in case I got it wrong, and now it’s just about done! Rachel of course didn’t have any of the attachment to these little devils that I did, and so for her, it was just a game, like putting together a puzzle. Fun even! For me, it’d just made my brain hurt, trying to work it out. You know what I mean. It all had to be even. Couldn’t have this one with that one because there’d be too much of this colour and not enough of that one, and these two pieces can’t really go together because that block’d have too much of that pattern. And so it went on. I’d even kinda take myself into my hands, and muster up to tackle the job once again, only to get a tenth of the way in, and my brain would just stop. Freeze really was the experience. I couldn’t think past the blockage. Have you had that before? Mostly, I’m a great problem solver, I love the challenge of working things out. I usually can think through things very quickly, work it out, get immediately into action, and bang, it’s done. This though? JUST COULDN’T DO IT! So thanks, thanks, thanks Rachel. You’re a legend! Reckon I’ll have them finished and ready and laid out and sorted into rows by the time Moshe wakes up. So cool!

Here I go!

And then some piano! Lovely start to a week, no?

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08:44:12 am. Here are my piles of rows all ready to sew up. I’ll post as soon as they’re all done. Now, on to my piano. Ah, breakfast and Brahms!