Working on odds and ends

Yesturday was all about working on odds and ends.  After work, I started to work on the samples, for photos, for the guild workshop.  Making pieces in different stages and taking the pictures to go into a handout.  That's all done.  Now another executive member is taking the pictures and adding them to a booklet with all the instructions that we worked on together the day before.  There were just a hand full of remaining pictures to take.

Then I had to go shopping for groceries, as I am in charge of the Thanksgiving weekend Sunday bunch.  I'm going to be making a couple of sweet potato, brussels sprout, sausage and bacon quiches, with breakfast sausages on the side, various cold cuts and cheeses for the buns, Caesar salad, veggie tray and fruit tray.  We usually have around 18 of us there, give or take.  I am looking forward to it!!!

After I got everything that I needed to get done and organized, it was time to work on my Smith Mountain Morning quilt.  I am still very behind, compared to a couple of the ladies.  So I sat at my machine and worked on these points that go in the border.  The other half of the points are blue and they were not cut yet.

Once all the brown pieces were sewn, I moved on to cutting the blues.  This is a slow and tedious task.  I have to pay attention to the direction of the points.  The ruler cuts the righthand side, then you have to either turn the ruler upside down, or flip the fabric upside down, in order to get a left hand point.  The pieces on the right of the picture below shows you what I mean about left and right points.

On the left hand side of the picture are the half square triangles (HST), that I am also cutting from the same strips.  Doing them both at the same time, so as to not handle the fabrics more than once.  Whatever is left of the strip after cutting these pieces, gets trimmed down and cut into logs for the courthouse step variation.

I still have a lot of cutting to do.  Even after I finish with the blue, I have to go back to the brown to do those logs too.  I guess if I had to choose one of my least favourite tasks, when it comes to quilting, well the first would definitely be the binding and then 2nd runner up would be cutting.  But it has to be done!!!  I'll have to take care of it after I get back from the weekend reunion.

Take care everyone.  Happy Friday of a long weekend if you're in Canada!!  And Happy Thanksgiving!