EARLY MORNING VISITORS

Aren't they beautiful birds?! 

 The Sandhill Cranes  are tall--48-50" each. 

 Their chatter is beautiful and their songs, while a bit boisterous, are incredible, too.  They come up to get some cracked corn to warm up after our chilly mornings lately!  

I stitched all of the blocks together and then had the less-than-thrilling job of ripping all of the paper away from the blocks.  Now if I had used the special paper available in pads for foundation paper piecing, which comes out in the wash, this step could've been skipped but I used thin copy paper.

Here is the pile of paper I ended up with--about 8" high! lol

And most of it peeled away very nicely.

I'm pleased with the results.  

I added some left over 2" strips for borders. 

 The final dimensions will be about 24" x 34" after I layer it up 

and load it on the machine for quilting!

 

READY TO CONSTRUCT

I stitched the last of the woven stars yesterday

 and today I will convert this into a table runner! 

 It is so nice to begin to see and think again--seriously, all the steps to carry on a simple task is nothing 

to be taken for granted!

 

WOVEN STARS ii

I mess up the star on the second row, left.  Because while you make foundation piecing blocks in reverse, my mind couldn't keep up with the right order.  Since the amount of fabric I have is limited, I didn't want to throw the block away so I will make just one more just like it to make it look like a design element! lol

I did change the layout to be three blocks wide.  I like the way it looks better.  Remember, slow and steady wins the race!

 

WOVEN STAR BLOCK

The block actually goes together quite well.  I had a little bit of trouble with the center matching on the star but I will see if the second one avoids that problem.

 

We had to run errands in the morning so I had a late start to the sewing but I still had a scrap of brain power to do it,

 and that is very encouraging!