It sounded so easy
May 5, 2020I thought this weeks border would be simple, maybe too simple, maybe finished Monday kinda simple. Boy, was I wrong. My initial ideas were very simple, although I did have half a thought to do something like the circles. I started getting some ideas down on paper.
The first ones are the ones at the bottom of the photo. The first is a simple piano key border but with black to help break it up. OK but maybe a bit boring, so maybe variable size pieces. Nope still a bit boring. I considered the random rectangles, could it be pieced….sanely? Applique again? Hmmm I like it but it has issues. The next two designs I really like, but are they going to be in proportion with the rest of the quilt? The coloured pieces, left blank in the drawings, would only be 1″×2″. It would stop the border being too heavy, but does it make to too light.
A couple of hours of other jobs while that marinated in my head and I came up with a couple more options.
To make the drawing easier I changed scale. The previous had been 1 square to 1″, these are 2squares to 1″. The coloured sections are now 1.5″ x 3″. That feels more in line with the rest of the quilt. I don’t love the design anymore though. I like it, but it isn’t the one I really fell for, so now I am waiting. To see if this grows on me, or I run out of time, or I think of an alternative.
I have also been quilting, I have a customer quilt in progress. I know there are more customer quilts on their way so I want to be ready. I just don’t know what will arrive when. It makes giving customers a time scale very difficult but does make things exciting for me. I never know when a package might arrive or which quilt it will be. For those wondering, yes incoming quilts are quarrentined. Not only that, they will be over quarrentined. The worst case I have seen for cardboard is 3 days, the worst for plastic 9 days and the worst for fabric 1 day. As most customers use a layer of plastic in the packing any arriving will sit 9 days before I bring them into my workspace. Given things will have been packed days weeks or even months before they arrive that shouldn’t be needed, but I am taking a very careful approach to everything. I would advise doing the same when quilts come back, I would hate to be the way anyone caught Covid.
Tonight’s dinner was an experiment. I had wanted to have smoked salmon for my birthday but I could only get trimmings, which I am not a fan of as breakfast. I saved them with the idea of making some sort of pasta sauce. I knew I wanted a creamy sauce of some kind and searched online for some ideas. I picked one I thought I could tweak and it was a great success. I need to find my recipe note book and write it up before I lose it. It will become a regular feature on our menu for a while at least. Probably however long I can get salmon trimmings at a good price.