Monday mystery solo robin

October 19, 2020

It is that time of the week again. I think this slightly later blog time will become standard as this is quieter and lets me use a real keyboard. The dog has reached a stage where he needs my attention in the mornings which makes blogging with him out hard and at the same time he behaves enough better to be out longer, which is great but also delays the blog. The real keyboard is quite a draw too, even though it means less spell checking. Sorry if that becomes an issue to you folks.

This weekend I managed another break from work and tried to progress the new storage for the sewing room. I have one corner that needed more drawers but Ikea have stopped making Alex drawers in colours I want. So I have three large sets of white drawers that I am slowly covering with a sticky film. The shape of the drawers makes that challenging but with a hair dryier I can heat the film enough to mostly stretch it into the cut out handles. It is not kind to my hands, but I hope I only have to do it once. One set of drawer fronts are done so if today goes will I may try to get the carcass covered and assemble the first set. That at least should be easy to cover as there are no curves or cut outs.

I suppose we really should get down to business now. We need to have a new design problem for the week. This week the technique is,

Strip piecing

That feels nice and relaxing after some we have had. Mind you I am already thinking I could strip piece then cut it and make something else from it. I am so bad at just doing simple. I guess we need to know how much space we have to play with. Border size,

Add a total of 12″ to two sides opposite sides of your quilt

Hmm, I think I have a plan. One of the other Monday quilts got a chunk of bargello, and I have rather fancied some myself. This sounds like an ideal opportunity. I wonder if I could make a case for 12″ on one side and 0″ on the other adding up to a total of 12″? It is mathematically true, but is it within the rule. LOL here is a crazy thought, can I add 15″ to one side and cut 3″ off the other, again that technically works right? Of course the down side is losing 3″ of work and effort which I don’t think I could face but it is an interesting line of logic. I suspect I will have 11″ of bargello and 1″ of something on the other side. Maybe 1″ of off cut from the bargello. I think that could work really well on the hexagon, and 11″ should give me a reasonable design space. The issue will be how fabric intensive it is. I might have to limit myself to 3/4″ finished strips rather than 1/2″.